Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, has long been in alignment with Trump on immigration and other priority issues.
Former Virginia Atty Gen. Ken Cuccinelli speaks to voters in 2013, when he ran unsuccessfully for governor.
He also has few friends in Congress after leading a far-right group that backed insurgent candidates against Republican incumbents, including leaders in Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to block him from any post requiring Senate confirmation. Trump recently pushed out the leaders at the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for most immigration policy and enforcement, in a sign of frustration at their inability to stem a dramatic surge of Central American families to the southern border.
Like Trump, he also publicly speculated that President Obama was not born in the United States, although both later backed down from that claim.
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