🇺🇸 On this reset day for America, here's the latest from Margaret Talev, Axios managing editor for politics, and her team.
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Smart Brevity™ count: 349 words ... 1½ minutes.
🇺🇸 On this reset day for America, here's the latest from Margaret Talev, Axios managing editor for politics, and her team.
Smart Brevity™ count: 349 words ... 1½ minutes.
Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
President Trump tried everything to delegitimize the rival who vanquished him. In reality, he has set President Biden on course to be a far more consequential U.S. president than he might otherwise have become.
In his inaugural address, Biden called on Americans to end "this uncivil war."
Kamala Harris was sworn in as the 49th vice president — the first woman, Black American or South Asian American to hold the nation's second highest office.
Biden was sworn in as the 46th president — with his hand on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 — by Chief Justice John Roberts.
The big relief: The inauguration was peaceful, and even normal.
The bottom line: Biden, 78, was written off early by some critics during the crowded Democratic primary — an instant one-termer who would be too white to reflect America, too old to shape his party's future, too centrist for modern politics and too consensus-driven to be a strong executive.
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