President Joe Biden will attend the inauguration of the next US president in January regardless of who wins next Tuesday’s election, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday, promising a peaceful transfer of power.
“This president believes in the peaceful transfer of power and that is what you will see this president do,” Jean-Pierre said. “It’s not about him, it’s about the American people. This is what the American people need to see, regardless of who wins.”
“He will certainly attend,” she said, adding that outgoing presidents regularly attend their successors’ inaugurations.
She did not mention former Republican President Donald Trump’s decision not to attend Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.
Trump and his wife Melania left the White House before Biden’s inauguration, skipping the traditional greeting to the next occupants of the presidential residence and the inauguration ceremony itself.
Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence, whom some Trump supporters had threatened to hang during the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and his wife Karen attended the ceremony.
This content was originally published in Biden will participate in the inauguration of the new US president regardless of winner on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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