Kamala Harris begins standard planning for presidential transition

Kamala Harris filed paperwork Monday morning to begin planning for a potential presidential transition – a standard move for a non-incumbent candidate but also another measure of her rushed campaign launch.

Kamala Harris filed paperwork Monday morning to begin planning for a potential presidential transition – a standard move for a non-incumbent candidate but also another measure of her rushed campaign launch. Former President Donald Trump announced his own transition committee last week. To lead the effort, CNN has learned that Harris is tapping the same person who ran the process for Joe Biden four years ago: Yohannes Abraham, the current Indonesia-based US ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Abraham and Harris worked together closely on the last transition and then when he was the first chief of staff to the National Security Council under Biden. Abraham will not start the transition work until he leaves the State Department. He is expected to leave his ambassador job soon and move back to Washington. Abraham, who did not respond when contacted by CNN for comment, has earned praise for the job he is leaving behind.