Former Sen. Kaufman to run Biden transition team
By Reid Wilson - 06/20/20 02:32 PM EDT
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) has chosen his closest confidante to lead the transition team tasked with staffing and preparing for a potential Biden administration should he beat President Trump in November's election.
Biden's campaign said Saturday that Ted Kaufman, Biden's longtime Senate chief of staff, would head the early transition efforts. Kaufman replaced Biden in the Senate for two years when Biden resigned to become vice president.
"The next president will confront an ongoing global health pandemic and inherit an economy in its worst shape since the Great Depression. No one will have taken office facing such daunting obstacles since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Joe Biden is prepared to meet these urgent challenges on the day he is sworn in as president, and begin the hard work of addressing the public health crisis and rebuilding an economy that puts working families first," Kaufman said in a statement issued by the campaign.
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