{"id":282786,"date":"2020-11-17T21:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282786"},"modified":"2020-11-17T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:55:09","slug":"biden-makes-nine-white-house-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=282786","title":{"rendered":"Biden makes nine White House appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">US President-elect, Joe Biden, on Tuesday, appointed nine close campaign aides into key White House positions.<br \/>\nThis follows his decision to name Ron Klain as his Chief of Staff.<br \/>\nThe new appointees include his 2020 campaign manager, Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, being named Deputy Chief of Staff.<br \/>\nA veteran of seven presidential campaigns, O\u2019Malley Dillon served as deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama\u2019s successful 2012 re-election effort.<br \/>\nCampaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, a House Democrat from Louisiana, has been named senior advisor to Biden.<br \/>\nThe 47-year-old will leave his seat in Congress to take his new role when Biden is inaugurated on January 20.<br \/>\nBiden also named Mike Donilon, a chief strategist for his campaign and a veteran Democratic tactician, to serve as senior advisor to the president.<br \/>\nOther appointments include the Chief of Staff and senior advisor to incoming First Lady Jill Biden, a counsel to the president and a director of Oval Office operations.<br \/>\nThe appointments come as President Donald Trump continues to challenge the results of the November 3 election and refuses to concede the race to Biden.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect, Joe Biden, on Tuesday, appointed nine close campaign aides into key White House positions. This follows his decision to name Ron Klain as his Chief of Staff. The new appointees include his 2020 campaign manager, Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, being named Deputy Chief of Staff. A veteran of seven presidential campaigns, O\u2019Malley Dillon served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,8812,13939,3607],"class_list":["post-282786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}