Biden to Howard graduates: January 6 insurrection put 'dagger at throat of democracy' #Shorts

January 2021, I stood in the U.S. Capitol to be inaugurated as President of the United States. Just days before, on that very spot, a violent insurrection took place, a dagger at the throat of democracy. For the first time in our history, an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power in this country, they failed. Our democracy held. Again, hope prevailed.

And this time, I was standing with a black woman about to take a two-mile procession down Pennsylvania Avenue as President and Vice President of the United States of America. And who was marching alongside her? The Howard University marching band in Laugh Step in Saladale.

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