US PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN SETS TO ANNOUNCE CLOSE ALLY, ANTHONY BLINKEN AS SECRETARY OF STATE
US President-elect, Joe Biden, is set to announce Anthony Blinken as the new Secretary of State.
The President elect is also expected to name another close ally, Jake Sullivan, as National Security Adviser.
Sullivan, 43, succeeded Blinken as Vice President Biden’s national security adviser, and served as the head of policy planning at the State Department under Hillary Clinton, making him her closest strategic adviser.
According to reports, Biden is poised to also announce a familiar face in his cabinet; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs from 2013 to 2017, as his UN ambassador.
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Biden plans to announce their selections despite President Trump’s refusal to concede defeat more than two weeks after Election Day.
Anthony Blinken, 58, has been a closed ally to Joe Biden for nearly 20 years, serving as his top aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later as his national security adviser when he was Vice President.
In that position, Blinken helped develop the American response to political instability across the Middle East, in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
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