Biden considers Hillary Clinton for the role of UN ambassador
The president-elect's transition team has been researching potential candidates for months and will present the possible options to you in the coming days.
Joe Biden reported that she is considering Hillary Clinton for a role in her administration, she would make the former Secretary of State the United States ambassador to the United Nations.
Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, is being "scrutinized" as a possible choice for the role, according to the Washington Post.
The president-elect has already begun to assemble his task force on the coronavirus and in the coming months will have to choose the members of his cabinet. Discussions are ongoing, even as Trump has refused to concede the election, citing election fraud without providing evidence.
Biden's team has been researching potential candidates for top positions in her administration for months and will be presented with several options in the coming days.
Regarding Clinton, sources told the Post that the move “would be a way for Biden to highlight the importance of that position in his administration and that placing it there would raise the prestige of the UN itself at a time when global cooperation and the role of the United States on the world stage has diminished ”.
On Wednesday, Biden chose veteran Democratic operative Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff. For months it was rumored that Klain, a lawyer who also advised Barack Obama, would get the top job.
Klain, 59, was Obama's "Ebola Czar" and has been a fierce critic of Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
He worked as Biden's senior aide while still a senator from Delaware and ran his office when he became vice president.
Klain reportedly fell out with Biden's team after he offered to support Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the White House in 2016. But now he has the most important unelected job in government that does not require Senate confirmation. .
According to various media reports, Biden is likely to return to some familiar faces in the Obama administration as she builds her national security team, while at the same time restoring foreign policy principles discarded by President Trump.
The New York Times reported that the expected return of more experienced hands has already been causing unease among younger, more liberal Democrats who view the party's pre-Trump national security instincts as "very outdated."
