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23 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Both Sullivan, who is 43, and Blinken, 58, served stints as Biden’s national security adviser when he was vice president.
More background on Blinken

nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/…
I think this Blinken fellow gets it.
Well known, close to Biden, has the experience.
I can’t find much on Jake Sullivan, Biden’s pick for National Security Advisor, but here is a lengthy piece he wrote in the Atlantic, in Feb 2019, that gives a good sense of his worldview.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
July, 2017

Jake Sullivan: Rhodes scholar, Yale Law School graduate, clerk to a Supreme Court justice, the person at Hillary Clinton’s side when she circled the world as secretary of state, a steady voice in the Situation Room for President Barack Obama.

washingtonpost.com/world/national…

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h/t @arapaho415

Similar to Patel, this guy has things he needs to cover up.

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