Among the tenants announced Tuesday: Mike Donilon will be a senior adviser to Biden’s campaign chief strategist, who played a leading role in shaping the 2020 race as a “battle of the nation’s soul” in his speeches and advertising. President. And Biden will be campaign chairman and Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will be advisers to the White House president, Steve Rishetti.
The announcements come days after Biden Pave tapped Democratic operative Ron Klein as his chief of staff, and shows that Biden is hiring staff for the first time who will be around him in the White House, before cabinet announcements move forward.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, who was a key aide to former Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign, will be the director of the White House Office of International Affairs. Chavez Rodriguez is a pte of former President Barack Obama’s administration, where he was the president’s special assistant and senior deputy director of public relations.
Bina was a general adviser to the campaign and once a Supreme Court judge, Samuel Elito’s clerk and general adviser to the Obama Foundation and Obama’s personal office, Dana Rams has been named a presidential adviser.
Anne Tomasini, who was Biden’s traveling chief of staff during the campaign, will be the director of the Oval Office’s Fisheries Operations, a gateway role that remains close to the re-elected president.
“President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris have ambitious and immediate agendas for action. The team we have already begun to assemble will allow us to face challenges on the first day of the country.” Rent Tuesday morning.
Biden’s transition team also announced several of Jill Biden’s top employees. Juliasa Renoso Pantalion, a former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay and deputy assistant secretary of state who is now a partner in Winston & Stron’s law firm, will be Biden’s chief of staff. Anthony Bernal, who was to become the next female Chief of Staff during the 2020 campaign, will be a senior adviser.
For the long term of the 2020 campaign, Tomasini and Bernal were the only Biden supporters and met regularly with the candidate and his wife. Biden has been campaigning heavily from home for months, with lockouts and travel bans banned during coronavirus epidemics in the states, campaign staff worked remotely. Tomasini and Bernal were the only staff who regularly entered and left their home in Delaware.
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