From left: incoming First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden
| Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty President-Elect Joe Biden Speaks At The Major Joseph R. Beau Biden III National Guard Reserve Center In Wilmington, Delaware
President-elect Joe Biden speaks on Tuesday from Delaware.
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Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol alongside Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
In his speech Tuesday, Biden paused to recognize the history Harris, 56, is set to make as the first Black person, first person of South Asian descent and first woman to hold the country s second-highest office. Where 12 years ago, I was waiting at the train station in Wilmington for a Black man to pick me up on our way to Washington, where we were sworn in as president and vice president of the United States, Biden said, alluding to his first swearing-in alongside former President Barack Obama, now 59, back in 2009.
UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:07 pm ET
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a COVID-19 memorial on Tuesday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. (APAP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON, DC 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 more violence as he prepares to take the oath of office.
Biden, an avid fan of Amtrak, had planned to take a train into Washington ahead of Wednesday s Inauguration Day, but scratched that plan in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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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.