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Trump’s pick for top US diplomat Rubio met Blinken on Wednesday, says State Dept

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for top US diplomat, Marco Rubio, met current Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday following an earlier conversation by phone, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said.

Patel told a regular press briefing that the two had a "constructive and substantive conversation," reiterating that the outgoing Biden administration supports a seamless transition to a second Trump administration on Jan. 20.