Proud to be a son of Delaware : Biden gets emotional leaving for Washington before inauguration Jeanne Kuang, Delaware News Journal
Full of emotion, Biden leaves Del. for inauguration
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Five decades after Joe Biden’s first ascent in local politics, Delaware sent its favorite son to Washington to take the highest office in the nation.
“In our family, the values we share, the character we strive for, the way we view the world it all comes from home, from Delaware,” the president-elect said Tuesday in an emotional speech to his home state. “I am proud, proud, proud to be a son of Delaware.”
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.
WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden made a sober entrance to the nation’s capital Tuesday, ready to assume power as America reels from the coronavirus pandemic, soaring unemployment and grave concerns about
One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims died alone their loved ones robbed of the chance to say goodbye but that the pain of that loss was whitewashed by a President who chose to minimize and deny it.