Vice President Pence and three former presidents sit in the noon sunshine at the Capitol to listen as Biden recites a 35-word oath of office familiar since 1884.
The Hill’s editor-in-chief, Bob Cusack, writes that Biden, leaning on lengthy relationships with key Republicans on Capitol Hill, believes he can defy history to enact major legislation in his first year with bipartisan support. His recent predecessors in the Oval Office struggled to fulfill similar ambitions.
The 46th president will begin his term with a 50-50 Senate and the smallest House majority Democrats have experienced in nearly a century and a half (221-211). Just 65,009 votes in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Nebraska s 2nd Congressional District made Biden the Electoral College winner, even with 81 million votes overall, or 51.3 percent of the total popular vote.
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My whole soul is in this. Joe Biden is sworn in as president and promises to bring unity to wounded country by serving ALL Americans, calls for end to this uncivil war of red versus blue, and opens new era saying: Democracy prevailed.
Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday
Kamala Harris, the first woman, the first black and the first South Asian American vice president, took the oath immediately after
In a 22-minute address after Biden was sworn in 11 minutes early by Chief Justice John Roberts, Biden drew a sharp contrast between his presidency and the preceding four years
Presidents Bush, Clinton and Obama stood with their wives in line behind the new president and vice-president - a silent show of unity and a rebuke to Donald Trump for snubbing the inauguration.