Trump's Democratic Cabinet candidates may be a ploy to help Republicans keep their Senate majority

AP Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to fish in Democratic waters for a possible cabinet member or two is smart politics. He is considering Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a former governor from a major coal-producing state for an opening as energy secretary. And he invited Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a major booster of both renewable and fossil fuels, for a chat on Friday afternoon at Trump Tower in New York. She, too, is supposedly in the ru...