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With Ron Klain gone, who’s running the Biden administration?

24 January 2023

8:41 AM

24 January 2023

8:41 AM

After President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last year, White House chief of staff and the administration’s resident Twitter addict Ron Klain joined a confab of journalists on Twitter Spaces to discuss the speech. When a reporter asked Klain, in response to Biden’s poor approval ratings, whether he thought they were having trouble getting their message out, Klain responded, “Well, I’m doing Twitter Spaces, aren’t I?”

It was a perfect demonstration of how Klain had taken to guiding administration policy in accordance with the whims of Twitter.

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