First Thing election special: ‘Ebola tsar’ becomes Biden’s chief of staff

Good morning. Joe Biden has named Ron Klain, who led the Obama administration’s response to the Ebola outbreak, as his chief of staff. Klain, who has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, is a White House veteran and long-time Biden ally. The pair first worked together in the 1980s, and Klain went on to work on Biden’s 1988 and 2008 presidential campaigns before serving as his chief of staff in the…