Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be inaugurated on Wednesday January 20, 2021 - 13:04 GMT Aisha Nozari Joe Biden s inauguration is set to be very different from Donald Trump s
Joe Biden s inauguration will be unlike any other in USA history due to the current coronavirus pandemic and the tense political unrest that rages across the country.
Find out exactly how Joe Biden s inauguration will be different below.
The coronavirus pandemic
As the USA s coronavirus death toll continues to spiral, many precautions will be in place to prevent large crowds of people forming.
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies usually offers 200,000 tickets for the Capitol s inauguration ceremonies, however this year, no tickets are being offered to the public.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition - and one that appears nowhere in the law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Amy Klobuchar will play a big role in Wednesday’s presidential inauguration. The senator from Minnesota is on the Senate Rules Committee as the lead Democrat, and a member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. She will be joining President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at a small church service in the morning,.