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US Vice-President, Mike Pence To Attend Biden’s Inauguration
Vice President Mike Pence will attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to a source familiar with the plans.
According to CNN, Pence was planning to attend the inauguration, but he was waiting on an invitation.
Word of Pence’s intention to watch President-elect Joe Biden take his oath of office in person spread just one day after the first major break between Pence and President Donald Trump — when Pence defied the President by performing his constitutional duty to certify the election results.
Pence had faced intense pressure from Trump and his supporters to somehow stop the ceremonial vote counting during a joint session of Congress, although he told the President it was not within his power to do so.
A mob incited by Trump on Wednesday had descended on the US Capitol where Pence was presiding over the counting of the Electoral College results, forcing him and his family to flee the chamber when the pro-Trump rioters infiltrated the building.
He said Friday that he was glad Pence would be attending.
“He’s welcome. I think it’s important that as much as we can stick to what have been the historical precedents of how an administration changes should be maintained. And so Mike, the vice president, is welcome to come. We’d be honored to have him there, and to move forward in the transition,” Biden said.
President Trump had tweeted, before his Twitter account was suspended, that he won’t be attending the inauguration ceremony on January 20.
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