The Politico newspaper has named the likely candidates for ministerial posts in the administration of Joe Biden, who announced his election as President of the United States. The publication notes that we are talking about a “long list” of candidates, whom it will have to select.
The publication notes that Biden has long been superstitious about making personnel decisions ahead of election day, and long-term allies expect unexpected turns in the formation of his team.
The newspaper names former national security adviser Susan Rice, former first deputy secretary of state Tony Blinken, senators Chris Koons and Chris Murphy, and former first deputy secretary of state and ex-ambassador to Moscow William Burns as candidates for the post of secretary of state.
Former Deputy Defense Minister and former Pentagon chief specialist for Russia Michelle Flurnoy, Senator and disabled veteran Tammy Duckworth and Senator Jack Reed are tipped for the Defense Ministry. According to the publication, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors Lael Brainard, ex-Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Ruskin, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Deputy Fed Chairman Roger Ferguson, head of Ariel Investments Mellody Hobson and another member of the FRS leadership Raphael Bostic.
In place of the Attorney General – the head of the Department of Justice is tipped for Senator Doug Jones from Alabama, Attorney General of California Xavier Becerru, ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates or ex-Minister of Labor Tom Perez.
Alejandro Mallorcas, the former deputy head of the department, and Xavier Becerra, already mentioned in the list of candidates for the prosecutor general, are running for the post of Minister of Internal Security.
According to the newspaper, Biden's transition team has been testing potential candidates for several months and will present possible options to the president-elect in the coming days. Biden is expected to focus first on public health and economic positions, including secretaries to the Treasury, health and social services. According to an official close to Biden's team, the former vice president intends to negotiate and is unlikely to announce cabinet nominations within the first week.
On November 7, Democrat Joe Biden, who received 273 of the required 270 electoral votes and thus secured his victory, declared himself elected President of the United States.
Biden will become the 46th President of the United States. At the end of November he will turn 78 years old, he will be the oldest American leader, reported CNN.
In turn, Donald Trump said that he hopes to regain his leading position in a number of states through the courts. According to the head of state, he was leading by a wide margin in several states on the evening of election day, and then a few days later this gap “miraculously evaporated.”
