In a major development in the presidential transition, US President-elect Joe Biden has made a big announcement in naming his first White House pick as he prepares to oust Donald Trump from the office amid the disproven claims from the incumbent and his refusal to accept the electoral loss and the fact that the American people had rejected him to serve the next four years in the office. 

Joe Biden has made his first appointment as the President-elect on Wednesday after he named longtime adviser Ron Klain as his White House Chief of Staff. Biden has been in his operation of building his administration with having no surety for the smooth and supportive process of transition from the incumbent and with bracing up the current state of the union that he would be facing larger challenges in repairing the damages and fixing the fractures of the unprecedently divided country. 

Biden's first appointment has become potential and Klain was largely expected to the post and he will be succeeding incumbent Mark Meadows. 59-year-old Ron Klain brings in vast administrative experience and he has been one of the longtime aides of the President-elect. Klain has served as Biden's Chief of Staff when the latter was the Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama. 

Klain has been expected to be a prominent figure in the incoming Biden administration in its response towards tackling the COVID-19 spread and fixing the health crisis as he had previously served as one of the key advisers in the Obama administration in its response to the Ebola Health crisis in 2014. With the experience of handling the public health crisis, Klain was a staunch critic of the Trump administration in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had affected 10 million Americans and claimed over lakhs of lives so far. 

Ron Klain had also served as the top aide of Vice President Al Gore when Bill Clinton was the president. He was one of the outside advisers to Biden during his presidential campaign and the Biden-Klain duo has a long relationship since Biden's years as the US Senator from Delaware. Naming him as his next chief of staff, Biden has started building his White House with a trusted and experienced aide. 

According to Reuters, Klain served as Biden's Chief of Staff when the latter was the Vice-President during the 2008-2009 financial crisis and when the United States was facing the greatest economic depression, Klain had helped the administration in overseeing the implementation of the $787 billion Recovery Act that later gave a big push and critical boost to the economy in revival. 

In his statement, President-elect Joe Biden said, "Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014. His deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff". 

When Biden is building his administration, incumbent Donald Trump has been building the undemocratic process of what would set up a wrong precedent in the history of presidential transitions as the incumbent has been signaling that he is not ready to accept the defeat and he has been crying electoral fraud and launching legal strikes against the election by airing the fictitious claim that the election has been stolen from him. 

The Trump administration has been barricading the smooth and peaceful transitions with some of the top GOP senators including Mitch McConnell have been backing Trump in living with his claim when the world knows that Joe Biden has won the magical number of 270 by securing 279 electoral votes with some of the states still counting the results. Trump is refusing to concede and he has now filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan, despite his first lawsuit was already rejected by the battleground state, which had picked Biden as its president.  

The lawsuit alleged voting misconduct in the Democratic stronghold of Wayne county, which includes Detroit. However, his lawsuit will less likely change the outcome in the state as Biden has been leading the incumbent by 1,48,000 votes. Denying the allegations, spokesman for the Michigan Department of State Jake Rollow said, "It does not change the truth, Michigan's elections were conducted fairly, securely, transparently, and the results are an accurate reflection of the will of the people". 

Rollow further stated that the Trump campaign has been promoting false claims to erode public confidence in the election. Democrats had accused Trump of aiming to undermine public trust in the US electoral process through unproven claims of voter fraud. The Republican President would be the first US President to lose a re-election bid since 1992 as George HW Bush was the last sitting president to lose the re-election.