WASHINGTON — Lame-duck President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made their first public appearance together Monday since Veep's loss to President-elect Donald Trump, visiting Arlington National Cemetery for a Veterans Day event. We visited together.
Biden, 81, and Harris, 60, took part in a wreath-laying ceremony ahead of the outgoing president's speech honoring military personnel and their families, with the defeated Democratic candidate leaving an expressionless first lady Jill Biden. While watching from the stands on the left.
Harris didn't speak until she shared a smile with her husband, Douglas Emhoff, who was sitting across from her, just six days after she lost to President Trump, 78, last month after accusing him of being a “fascist” who threatened the American nation. , he had a similarly calm expression on his face. Democracy.
“Now is the time to come together as a nation and maintain trust in each other,” Biden said, in an apparent reference to last Tuesday's election that gave Republicans control of the White House and Congress.
“The world asks each of you and me to continue to honor the women, men, and families who endured the fight, to continue to protect all that they fought for, and to continue to work to heal this nation’s ills.” We depend on all of us to carry our wounds and continue to perfect our union.”
It is unclear whether Biden, who is scheduled to welcome President Trump to the White House on Wednesday, spoke with Harris during the cemetery visit.
According to Poole's report, Harris' motorcade stopped briefly at a section 13 cemetery and knelt in front of the grave.
That area of the cemetery primarily contains the bodies of men who fought in the Civil War.
The vice president's office did not immediately provide information about the stop.
Biden and Harris spoke separately last week about Democrats' losses in both the popular vote and the Electoral College.
Harris gave a concession speech at her alma mater, Howard University, on Nov. 6 that led some commentators to position her as a potential future leader as the Democratic Party's outage begins. I believed it was intended.
The next day, Biden addressed the nation from the Rose Garden without his number two and promised an orderly transition of power.
