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WASHINGTON: United States President-Elect Joseph Biden (pix) said before his inauguration on Wednesday that the United States was waking up to “a new day.”
“It’s a new day in America,” Biden said via Twitter, the Sputnik news agency reported.
Biden will be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday around noon local time (17:00 GMT). Some 25,000 National Guard personnel have been mobilized as part of the enhanced security measures for the inauguration.
Meanwhile, the news agency reported that Biden attended mass with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders in Washington on Wednesday, just hours before his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joined Biden for the ceremony at St. Matthews Cathedral in the capital.
Outgoing United States President Donald Trump left Washington for his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, becoming the first president to skip the inauguration of his successor since 1879, when Andrew Johnson failed. attended the Ulysses S Grant ceremony. – Called
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