Jennifer Garner came close to getting elected for a spot in Aaron Sorkin‘s The West Wing back in the day but when it didn’t work out, the actress set off on a solo trip to the desert to lick her wounds. “God, I wanted it so badly,” Garner told Emma Grede on a new episode of her Audacy podcast, Aspire, that dropped Tuesday. “I got down and I tested for it, and when I didn’t get it, I had to go to the desert — my first time in Palm Springs by myself — and just sit there for a couple of days.” Garner called it a “mourning” process after losing the part on such a “good show.” Though she didn’t reveal for which part she auditioned, it was…