Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Omna Navaz on the news hour tonight. President

elect Trump makes his first big White House pick naming campaign advisor Susie Wiles, his chief

of staff. What we know about the woman behind his historic return to the Oval Office.

Plus, we hear from voters who share their views on the future of the country in the wake of the election.

I pray that people can't work together, but he's going to be there for four years.

What can we do to make things better?

And how Kamala Harris's loss is once again prompting the question, what will it take to elect

a woman to the nation's highest office?

Welcome to the NewsHour.

President-elect Donald Trump began putting his new team in place, announcing that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, will be the White House Chief of Staff when he takes office next year.

Wiles is the first woman to be appointed to that position, and during his victory

speech Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump praised Wiles for helping engineer his sweeping victory.

Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you. The ice baby. We call it the ice baby.

You know, my son. Chris, come here, Chris. Come here, Chris.

Susie likes to stay in the background.

She's not in the background.

A veteran of Florida politics, Wiles ran successful campaigns

for Senator Rick Scott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

before running Donald Trump's winning bid for re-election.

For a closer look, we're joined now by Mark Caputo, national political reporter for the

bulwark and previously covered politics in his home state of Florida for years.

Mark, it's great to have you here.

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