Joe Biden’s Invisible Pandemic Expert
You’d have to be paying pretty close attention to know that one of Joe Biden’s top advisers is the person who spearheaded America’s response to the last major public-health crisis and ran the last major economic recovery.
The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee complains about being stuck in his basement. Well before he faced Tara Reade’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s (which he denies), Biden supporters all over the country were anxiously texting and emailing each other, wondering why he’s not taking on Donald Trump more directly over the pandemic. Even now, Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff and Barack Obama’s former Ebola czar, remains on the outside.
Klain’s main integration into Biden’s public campaign strategy was via a video ripping into the Trump administration’s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of people watched. That was March 21. He appeared as Biden’s first guest on the campaign’s podcast. That was March 29.
A lot has happened since. Even as he has stayed close with Biden (so much so that some of Biden’s other top advisers grumble occasionally about his direct line to the candidate) and been all over TV (so much so that some of those same aides also grumble about how
