Former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. addresses a meeting of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators in Albany, N.Y., Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)Politico is reporting that former Tennessee Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. could be under consideration for transportation secretary or another Cabinet post in a Donald Trump administration.
The Memphis native is a former five-term Congressman who lost to Bob Corker in the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Tennessee.
The story by Annie Karni, posted Tuesday, said Ford has worked as a managing director at Morgan Stanley since 2011, and is a regular news analyst on MSNBC.
Karni wrote that Ford backed Hillary Clinton for president, but is also close with Trump's children, Don Jr., Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, an associate said.
"Now the moderate Democrat is poised to potentially join the incoming Republican administration. Two sources confirmed to POLITICO that Ford has yet to meet with the president-elect, but that there have been some preliminary feelers put out about potential Cabinet-level posts, including transportation secretary, via "emissaries." And Ford did not rule it out."