Hillary Clinton Names Transition Team to Prepare for Her Presidency if She Wins
Part of her team is looking past November.
— -- Hillary Clinton is looking past Election Day and gearing up for what comes next, in the event that she wins.
Clinton's campaign announced several key appointments for her transition team, who will be tasked with getting everything lined up to begin her term as president should she win the election.
The transition team will be based in Washington, D.C., the campaign announced via news release this morning, noting that they will be "dedicated to preparing for a potential Clinton-Kaine administration, enabling the Brooklyn-based campaign organization to stay exclusively focused" on the ongoing campaign.
Two of Clinton's top campaign policy advisors -- Ed Meier and Ann O'Leary -- are shifting their focus from the campaign to the transition. They will be executive directors, handling day-to-day operations.
Former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is the chair of the transition team, which is called the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project.
Salazar was among the larger list of possible vice presidential candidates ABC News had compiled based on reporting and analysis, before Clinton announced Sen. Tim Kaine had been selected as her running mate.
"Once Hillary Clinton makes history by being elected as the nation's first woman President, we want to have a turnkey operation in place so she can hit the ground running right away," Salazar said in a statement released by the campaign.
Salazar will be heading the team and will have four co-chairs who hail from public service and the private sector.
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, President of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics were announced as the co-chairs.