What Went Down During Joe Biden’s Inauguration

I’ll be That Guy who points out that Biden, even after having been sworn in, is not technically president until noon. So we’ve got about nine more minutes of President Trump to go here.

If you all recall, in 2009 Obama had to re-recite the oath of office later in the day because Roberts fumbled his words, and so did Obama.

As I note in my recent book, Democrats picked Biden for one key trait: electability. And he managed to deliver on that. But since becoming the nominee, he’s demonstrated another key trait: empathy. This didn’t come up much in the primary debates in 2019 and 2020, but his ability to speak to those experiencing loss and relate his own losses proved to be a very useful skill on the campaign trail, and perhaps even more so since the November election.