Aaron Blake. "We argued with him about Hillary and said, 'You know, are you sure she's going to be loyal," Messina said. "If the Lord Almighty came down and said, "You are President tomorrow, write down in the next 15 minutes your Cabinet,' I think I can do it," Biden said at a virtual fundraiser this month. But the former vice president ran a campaign that, for the most part, remained ideologically agnostic and scant on policy details. "It has to happen and that's why the transition team is already being put together. For months, Democratic Party operatives openly agonized about how the large primary field could hurt the eventual nominee's ability to defeat President Donald Trump in November. He and then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton ran a fierce race against each other during the primary, leading to significant bad blood between the Obama and Clinton camps. Follow. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones for just $12.It's us but for your ears. "The Party had "a lot of worriers and lemon suckers," McAuliffe said, "but it always works out. Especially during what's been called a "media extinction event" when The months and years ahead won't be easy. One group has a list of people who SHOULDN’T be considered. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who had endorsed Sanders, Lu has been in touch with a number of the progressive groups seeking advice on how to have a say in Biden’s appointees. Copyright © 2020 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress.
Joe Biden confidants are privately discussing potential leaders and Cabinet members for his White House, including the need to name a woman or African American — perhaps both — as vice president, top sources tell "Axios on HBO."
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The groups want left-of-center lawmakers who endorsed Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to co-chair Biden’s transition team; they want liberal economists like Joseph Stiglitz to serve on Biden’s National Economic Council; and they want a “trusted progressive” to run the Presidential Personnel Office with the aim of keeping a Biden administration “free of corruption.” They also wanted Biden to refrain from appointing any “current or former Wall Street executives or corporate lobbyists, or people affiliated with the fossil fuel, health insurance, or private prison corporations, to your transition team, advisor roles of cabinet.”The document is the first high-profile manifestation of an organized effort among progressive activists, scholars, and lawmakers that quietly came together over the last few weeks as Biden—not Sanders—salted away the Democratic nomination for president. The question on the mind of most political junkies right now is who former Vice President Joe Biden will pick as his running mate. “Biden’s team knows it’s not just about the 100-day legislative strategy—they know he needs a regulatory strategy around what Trump regs need to be turned around, and a budget, which is usually unveiled sometime in February,” Lu explains. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate on Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Washington. He also says they should consider whom they might want named to lower-level positions beyond the Cabinet.
"I promise you that has already begun," Biden said of building out a transition team and cabinet agencies at a virtual fundraiser earlier this month.
Biden has heaped similar praise on Harris, telling donors earlier this month that he is "so lucky" to have Harris as "part of this partnership going forward. That, in combination with his White House experience, may actually set the table well for progressives hoping to exercise some control, says Chris Lu, who served as a deputy secretary of labor during the Obama administration and executive director of the Obama–Biden transition.