Biden national security and foreign policy picks splinter the Left
by Naomi Lim, Political Reporter |
| November 24, 2020 06:00 AM
President-elect Joe Biden and far-left figures in the Democratic coalition aren't on the same page when it comes to high-level appointments for his incoming administration.
It's a not-unexpected source of tension. But it largely stayed private after Biden clinched the Democratic nomination against the likes of Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the latter a socialist and avatar of the party's furthest-left fringes. Biden was President Barack Obama's vice president for two terms and before that a 36-year Delaware senator, consistently in the middle of the Democratic Party ideologically but hardly a fire-breathing political revolutionary.
Now differences over policy — and by extension personnel — are going public after Biden defeated President Trump, a victory effectively made official Monday by General Services Administrator Emily Murphy's belated decision to allow a transition to begin between the outgoing and soon-arriving administrations.
Biden's choice for secretary of state, longtime aide and former President Barack Obama's deputy secretary of state Tony Blinken, was first on the Left's list.
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who never endorsed Biden over Sanders, was Blinken's most vocal critic, pouncing on his approach to Israel.
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