Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org The man who created the modern presidential transition now faces an extraordinary one October 29, 2020 The man who literally wrote the laws on presidential transitions is now running one — and it could be the country’s most difficult handover of power since the Great Depression, with dueling health and economic crises as well as an unpredictable incumbent who may throw wrenches into the process.