The United States on Wednesday will again transfer power from one president to another, as it has done since 1797 when George Washington left office to be replaced by the second American president, John Adams.
This time, President-elect Joe Biden, a former vice president under Barack Obama who previously served as a US senator for 36 years and 13 days, will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, meanwhile, will be the 49th vice president of the United States. Her inauguration will represent the breaking of the second-highest glass ceiling in American society, as she will be the first woman ever to serve as vice president.
Harris was previously the attorney general of California and the junior U.S. senator from that state. (Harris resigned from the Senate on Monday.)
Harris will also be the first Black vice president and the first South Asian vice president, though she will not be the first vice president of color. Republican Charles Curtis – who served under President Herbert Hoover – was the first. Curtis, born in Kansas, was a member of the Kaw Nation Native American.
'NO TOLERANCE' FOR VIOLENCE ON INAUGURATION DAY:
There will also be a historic level of military presence in the capital aimed at preventing violence after a Jan. 6 mob stormed the Capitol — ostensibly trying to stop Congress from certifying Biden's Dec. 14 Electoral College win over Trump.
Biden and Harris are set to take the reins of government as a host of senior officials from both parties take part in the celebration of American democracy.
When is it?
Special coverage of Fox News for the inauguration will begin at 11 a.m., anchored by Bret Baier and Martha McCallum. Biden will be sworn in at noon, officially becoming president of the United States.
Where is?
The inauguration will take place on the West Front of the Capitol, outside as it has traditionally been held in recent years. Previously, presidential inaugurations took place on the East Portico of the Capitol. (President Ronald Reagan's second inauguration, in 1985, was held inside the Capitol because of the harsh winter temperatures that day.)
How is the military presence?
With many top government officials gathering in the same place, a presidential inauguration always involves a massive security effort.
But the threats have been more serious and widespread this time, as President Trump and many of his allies claimed that the presidential election was stolen and that Trump had won.
Those claims, rejected in multiple court rulings, reached a fever pitch when Trump doubled down on Jan. 6, with him and his supporters using heightened rhetoric at a rally in Washington before lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence settled on him. confirmed Biden's electoral victory in a joint session of Congress.
In addition to 25,000 National Guard troops from all 50 states and three territories helping with security, personnel from the Maryland State Police, the US Capitol Police, the New York Police Department and many other agencies were all in town for kept the president and vice president, and the seat of the US government, safe.
How many times has this happened?
Although Biden will become America's 46th president, his swearing-in will be the 59th time a US president has been sworn in.
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