Ms Bondi’s rise has brought her far from Temple Terrace, the city where she grew up on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Her father, a teacher, was the mayor. While an undergraduate at the University of Florida she considered becoming a paediatrician. But she went to law school, and an internship at the state prosecutor’s office in Tampa sealed the deal.

Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden in her Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general on Wednesday, intensifying Democratic concerns that the former Florida attorney general would be a rubber stamp for the White House.

In 2020, Bondi supported Trump's efforts to overturn the election, embracing false claims of voter fraud and asserting that " we won Pennsylvania ," a state Trump in fact lost by 80,000 votes. Durbin responded to Bondi's deflection by saying that he thought his question “deserved a yes or no.”

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, survived an at times contentious hearing while declining to say if Joe Biden won the 2020 vote.

The president-elect’s pick to lead the Justice Department refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the 2020 election

Ill., the ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, grilled Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, at her confirmation hearing, Under oath, she declined to clearly acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

Trump said Bondi would “refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again” in her role as attorney general.

Bondi, a former Florida state attorney general, weathered often heated questioning from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee Wednesday over her refusal to admit Joe Biden won the 2020 election, among other issues,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, said she accepted the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden but suggested during a confirmation hearing Wednesday that she had witnessed significant problems in Pennsylvania when she traveled to state as an advocate for the Republican’s campaign.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a second day of its confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, on Thursday.

Pam Bondi is set to meet in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for her confirmation hearing to become the next US attorney general.