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Donald Trump is reportedly eyeing two of his top surrogates - Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich - for big league White House jobs
Reporting from NBC News suggests that Trump could pick Giuliani as attorney general and Gingrich as secretary of state
The network also reported that Trump is considering Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus for chief of staff

By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:57 EST, 7 November 2016 | Updated: 06:16 EST, 8 November 2016

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While having a Clinton in the White House could seem like a throwback to the '90s, two of Donald Trump's rumored top picks for his cabinet hearken back to that era too.

NBC News is reporting that Trump is eyeing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for attorney general and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to be secretary of state.

Giuliani, age 72, who helped get New York through 9/11 and Gingrich, 73, who led congressional Republicans through the Bill Clinton years, have resurfaced as major GOP political players after having both run unsuccessfully for president in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

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Donald Trump could be enlisting two of his top surrogates for big jobs in the administration: Newt Gingrich (left) as secretary of state and Rudy Giuliani (right) as attorney general

Donald Trump is reportedly eyeing some of his stop surrogates, including Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich, along with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus for top White House roles

This is, in part, because Trump's unlikely candidacy took many Republicans by surprise and also left alienated some major figures in the party including the trio of Bushes, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, along with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Filling that void on cable news show were often Gingrich and Giuliani, who became two of The Donald's most vocal surrogates outside his greater campaign staff.

Other surrogates are reportedly in the running for top Trump administration jobs too.

NBC reported that Trump's team is considering Lt. Gen Michael Flynn for defense secretary.

Flynn's appointment, however, would need a congressional waiver, as Flynn hasn't been out of the military for the mandated seven years.

Additionally, NBC says that Trump is looking at his finance chair, Steve Mnuchin, as a potential treasury secretary, along with the Republican National Committee's finance chair Lew Eisenberg for commerce secretary.

In a show of how closely the RNC was actually working with Trump, RNC chairman Reince Priebus is actually being considered to be Trump's chief of staff.

Priebus has stayed firmly on Trump's side since the billionaire businessman got the nomination and has been instrumental in helping the campaign put together a heavy duty data operation.

If Priebus vacates his RNC role, there's also chatter that Trump's original campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who's now a paid contributor on CNN, could go work over there.

Trump's deputy campaign manager David Bossie is also rumored to be an option to head over to the RNC.

If Trump squeaks out a victory on Tuesday night, two of the media-savvy types who made is possible may not follow along.

Steve Bannon, who took leave from the right-wing media company Breitbart to help lead Trump's team, plans to go back to that gig once this is all said and done.

Kellyanne Conway, the well-respected Republican pollster who was promoted to Trump's campaign manager in August, is also not likely to join Trump's White House team, NBC reported.

When spokeswoman Hope Hicks was asked about these names being floated, she told NBC that 'none of this is accurate.'

She added that Trump has not been involved in the transition because he's 'entirely focused on the campaign and the American people.'