If Kamala Harris wins the election, she will likely approach the task of filling out her Cabinet and West Wing much like she did when she took over Joe Biden's campaign operation this summer.

While she’ll ensure her closest advisers and key Cabinet members are people she personally trusts, there will be some continuity with the current administration, according to five people familiar with ongoing conversations granted anonymity to speak candidly about the transition process. And regardless of whether Democrats keep their narrow hold of the Senate or Republicans take control, Harris will have to game out how much of Biden’s Cabinet she can hold over.

Harris has tasked Yohannes Abraham, who led the Biden-Harris transition four years ago, with guiding hers. But unlike the president, who brought a small cadre of aides into the West Wing who’d been part of his inner circle for decades, Harris doesn’t have a long career in Washington. In filling out her vice presidential office and revamping Biden’s campaign, she has leaned on a small group of trusted aides for advice as well as top operatives from across the party, many of them veterans of Barack Obama’s campaign network. And after four years as vice president, dozens of former Harris staffers are scattered around Washington, enmeshed at other executive branch agencies and on Capitol Hill.

As with most modern Democratic transitions, Harris and her team will seek to send a message with her choices by ensuring that a future Cabinet demonstrates her commitment to diversity — racially, geographically and politically. She’s promised that one difference between her and Biden would be that she’d appoint at least one Republican to her Cabinet.

This is POLITICO’s snapshot of the leading contenders for Harris’ top jobs.