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**NOVEMBER 9, 2020**

Kuttner on TAP

Ron Klain Is Likely Biden Chief of Staff

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President-elect Biden is likely to name a chief of staff as early as
this week. Favored for the job is his former chief of staff, Ron Klain,
who had that post from 2009 to 2011 when Biden served as vice president.

One qualification that gives Klain the edge is that he served as
President Obama's Ebola response coordinator in 2014-2015, not a bad
qualification during the current pandemic.

Another is that Klain is far more acceptable to progressives than Wall
Street-afflicted members of Biden's inner circle such as Steve
Ricchetti or more conservative senior advisers like Jeff Zients, CEO of
the Cranemere holding company, or former Democratic Leadership Council
leader Bruce Reed.

As Biden continues his posture of assuming the role of president-elect
despite Trump's non-concession, expect more announcements of senior
appointments soon.

This is smart as well as statesmanlike. It both reminds Americans of
what a competent chief executive looks like, and adds to a politics of
inevitability.

The more Biden behaves like a president-elect presuming a normal
transition, the less stomach Republicans will have for going down with
Trump's sinking ship.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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