Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Biden Gets His Most Important Pick Right

Imposing order on the modern White House requires a competent chief of staff. Ron Klain is a good choice.

November 12, 2020 at 7:41 AM EST

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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President-elect Joe Biden has selected Ron Klain to be White House chief of staff, to fairly widespread acclaim. Klain was once a staffer for Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee; since then, he’s worked for a number of Democratic big shots, eventually serving as Biden’s vice presidential chief of staff during the rollout of the recovery act, and then as Barack Obama’s Ebola czar. He’s well qualified for the job, and seems to be well regarded by party groups and even by some Republicans (which is why I said Biden should choose him!).

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