WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is already working with a team to plan for his transition in preparation for winning the White House in November, he told donors during a virtual fundraiser Monday night.
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Biden said he has been meeting with former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, his longtime top aide who was appointed to fill Biden’s Senate seat when he was elected vice president, to discuss his transition plans. Kaufman worked on Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008, and helped author legislation formalizing the presidential transition process.
Biden told host Penny Pritzker, who served as secretary of commerce under Obama, that he’s also “working with folks like you who, in fact, are already deciding, what do we have to do?”
“You can’t wait until you win, if you win. You’ve got to start right now,” he said.
Biden said his campaign is putting together a transition team and has received considerable “intake” from individuals, particularly from the Treasury, State and Defense departments, about a prospective Biden administration.
“People know we’re in real trouble and they’re ready to help,” Biden said.
And he said that though the Trump administration has seen an exodus of career civil servants, he’s optimistic he can bring some of those workers back.
“You’ve got to be ready on Day One to be able to start naming people to head up these Cabinet positions, sub-Cabinet positions and those appointments that are in within the departments that are career positions, and bring people back,” he said. “I think we can do it.”
The former vice president had previously said he had “several hundred serious, serious players,” including some Republicans, who have told him they’d like to return to their jobs if he wins the White House.
He let the cat out of the bag. Former employees who want their jobs back. Swamp deep state creatures who won’t let go and want to return and suck the blood of the American taxpayers.
We know that if he wins he won’t be in a normal mental state to preside.
Look for the Obumu ghouls to return and run the ciuntry.
Nightmare.
What’s Biden doing to help out in the current covid 19 crisis ? Is he comforting Victims and the sick ? Fundraising for food drives etc ? We need someone who is a man of the people like the current president who is it there daily meeting with the task force .
Can you remind us who Biden is ? I vividly remember who he is
Not so fast.
Your accuser isn’t going away any time soon.
The Uncle will drop out sooner than later.
Bernie in a comeback.
AP fakers ignoring the story.
Sleepy joe. Go back to sleep
It is amazing looking at headlines for Biden and trump on this site. Everyone negative for trump and everyone positive for Biden. Biden has not won a presidential election. What kind of nonsense article is this. Of course he has a team preparing. He won’t win. Stop propping up this rapist and guy who would not be good for business or jews
To all you anti minyan people, no need to worry much longer. Joe Biden, being a good Catholic, will ban Orthodox Jews from praying from the standard prayer book. It’s racist and anti woman. Judaism in general is racist and Joe being Mr. Honest and fare, will end all hatred in this Country. No federal money will go to private Yeshivos unless they adopt a more transgender curriculum. They will also have to accept openly homosexual children.