Wilmington, Dale. – Joseph R. elected president. Biden Jr. will name P Dem Democratic operative and decades-old confidant Ron Klein to become his White House staff chief early Thursday morning. Mr. Biden’s decision.
Mr. Klein, a lawyer with corporate NDA experience on Capitol Hill, advises President Barack Obama and has been seen for months as a potential choice to manage Mr. Biden’s team in the corporate board room, the White House. Known for his stable nerves, he also has a keen sense of humor, which he has repeatedly lashed out at President Trump on Twitter.
Mr. Trump was particularly critical of handling the coronavirus epidemic, and served as “Ebola Caesar” under Mr. Obama during his second term fatal disease outbreak. A video of Mr. Klein lecturing on Mr. Trump’s epidemic was widely seen during the campaign.
Mr. Billan, who was first a Delaware senator for Mr. Biden in 1989, and Mr. Klein, a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, his choice, Mr. Biden’s choice, Mr. Biden wishes to rely on. A tight circle of people inside Washington Washington who have been by his side for years.
Advisers have said the president-elect will announce other top White House staffers in the near future, despite Mr. Trump’s refusal to accept the election results. By tweeting “We will win!” Wednesday evening.
Mr Biden will not announce his cabinet elections until around Thanksgiving, many close to the transition said.
As a political strategist, Mr. Klein is well versed in the lever of power in the executive and legislative branches of government. But, they will quickly force the White House staff to come together, ahead of moderate members of the Democratic establishment, with whom Mr. Biden has surrounded himself for four decades in politics.
Even before Mr Biden’s announcement, liberals in the party had already demanded that progressives in the West Wing be given an important voice. And the president-elect will be forced to fulfill the promise of his campaign to make his administration “look like the country,” including tape of LGBTQ Americans and other minorities to become part of the White House staff.