Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain is preparing to leave the White House. The longtime adviser has been a behind-the-scenes force in helping the president get big legislation across the finish line.
Klain walks to the South Lawn of the White House to attend an event celebrating the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in Washington on Apr. 8, 2022.Klain walks to the South Lawn of the White House to attend an event celebrating the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in Washington on Apr. 8, 2022.Chris Whipple, who has studied White House chiefs of staff, said Klain stands out as one of the most successful in recent history.
One of those moments came ahead of the 2021 midterm elections, when Biden wanted to"go everywhere and talk about everything, essentially," to try to help his party win, Whipple said. Instead, Klain and Biden's political team convinced the president to focus on a narrow list of states and two main issues — reproductive rights, and the threat posed to democracy by 'MAGA Republicans.
In October 2021, a low point in Biden's presidency when it seemed that his push for his 'Build Back Better' agenda had failed, Klain wanted to quit, Whipple said. Biden was on his way to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, empty-handed, when Whipple visited Klain at the White House."Ron said to me at that point that he was exhausted and he was thinking about leaving," Whipple said."That's how relentless and grueling and exhausting that job can be.
"And that's one thing that Ron Klain uses Twitter for — is to protect the president and to and to defend him and to promote him."
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