{"id":310715,"date":"2026-11-05T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=310715"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:26:29","slug":"us-ambassador-to-india-could-become-the-next-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/310715\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to India could become the next Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Sergio Gor, the US Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs and US Ambassador to India, could be appointed to a senior position within the administration, potentially serving as Secretary of State or White House Chief of Staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonsun.com\/administration\/trump-sergio-gor-state-white-house-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Sun<\/a> reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>Gor, a former top White House aide and close Trump ally, has been laying the groundwork for a major promotion in the aftermath of the midterm elections, according to 10 people familiar with internal conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Well-connected, with direct access to Trump, Gor has had growing involvement in high-level meetings that&rsquo;s given him influence well beyond his ambassadorship. He&rsquo;s seen as a key power broker between Washington and much of Asia, and as a confidante to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The former head of the White House&rsquo;s Office of Presidential Personnel maintains relationships across the Trump administration, having played a key role in the vetting and appointment of thousands of officials.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Gor is being discussed in Trump&rsquo;s circles as a candidate for senior administration positions for the second half of the president&rsquo;s term. There&rsquo;s also a widespread and rapidly circulating understanding among State Department officials that Gor is interested in such a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with internal conversations said they&rsquo;ve heard Gor&rsquo;s name come up as a possibility for a number of powerful jobs, including White House chief of staff and taking over for Rubio as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Gor, the US Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs and US Ambassador to India, could be appointed to a senior position within the administration, potentially serving as Secretary of State or White House Chief of Staff, The Washington Sun reports, citing sources. Gor, a former top White House aide and close Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":310693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310716,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310715\/revisions\/310716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}