PALM BEACH, United States: As families across a bitterly divided America gathered for Thanksgiving, a battle erupted on Thursday (Friday in Manila) in Donald Trump’s camp over his pick for secretary of state, with loyalists seeking to block the path of Mitt Romney, a fierce former critic of the billionaire.
With the president-elect hunkered down at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the holiday weekend -- from where he urged the country to unite after a “painful” campaign -- his team appears split over the prospect of making Romney, the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, America’s top diplomat.
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