Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday, a history-making event in which the first Black, South Asian and female vice president will take her oath of office from the first Latina justice.
In Biden's first event in Washington he took part in an evening ceremony near the Lincoln Memorial to honor the 400,000 American lives lost to COVID-19.
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(Bloomberg) President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington on Tuesday, the eve of his inauguration, with the usual backdrop of celebrations and political comity replaced by a military lockdown.
He choked up in remarks in New Castle, Delaware, before departing for the capital, acknowledging that the moment was “kind of emotional for me,” and wiped tears from his cheeks. Speaking at a National Guard barracks named for his deceased son, Beau Biden, the president-elect said “it’s deeply personal that our next journey to Washington starts here.”
Sixty-eight percent of Americans approve of Joe Biden s handling of his presidential transition, according to a new Gallup poll. Here are highlights from the poll released Tuesday: 27% of Republicans approve of Biden s.