During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden vowed to fight for the soul of America. As he formally assumes office as the next U.S. president on Wednesday, Biden now faces the steep task of repairing a nation’s soul in battered and desperate shape. Few presidents, if any, have taken power in circumstances such as these: a still-raging pandemic claiming lives and shredding livelihoods, a continuing threat of armed insurrection and a defiant former president who faces a U.S. Senate trial charged with encouraging an attack on his country’s capital. A Democrat, Biden will preside over a deeply polarized electorate, with millions of voters still believing defeated Republican President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, and a divided Congress, where gridlock looms as the default and success will come only by compromise.
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Joe Biden: Youngest Senators To Oldest US President
In his victory speech, Biden pledged to unite the country as he called it a time to heal in America . PTI photo outlookindia.com 2021-01-20T20:20:15+05:30
Known as a peoples person, a reformer, a unifier and a healer, Joe Biden rose remarkably from being the youngest Senators to become the oldest American president in US history on Wednesday, reaching the zenith of his political career spanning nearly five decades.
The 78-year-old six-term Democratic senator, ran twice unsuccessfully for president - in 1988 and 2008 winning over Republican President Donald Trump in the November 3 presidential election.
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