First Thing: Biden attempts to step out of Obama’s shadow

Good morning. Joe Biden has insisted his presidency will not be a “third Obama term”, during his first sit-down interview since the election. He said “we face a totally different world” than under Barack Obama, arguing that Donald Trump had “changed the landscape”. The clarification may have been necessary: it followed the announcement of the first picks for Biden’s cabinet yesterday, many of whom are political veterans from the Obama…