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Biden Planning to Lay Out 'Positive, Optimistic' Vision at Inauguration

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to lay out a
   "positive, optimistic" vision for the country in his inaugural address
   on Wednesday and "try to turn the page on the divisiveness, and the
   hatred of the last four years" under outgoing President Donald Trump, a
   key Biden aide said Sunday.

   Kate Bedingfield, Biden's incoming communications director, told ABC's
   "This Week" show that the new U.S. leader will "lay out a path forward
   that really calls on all of us to work together."

   She added, "I think that's what Americans all across the country want.
   They want a government that once again is focused on doing the right
   thing by them and helping them in their day-to-day lives."

   "Eighty-one million Americans voted for President-elect Biden in part
   because he was laying out a vision for this country that gets us to a
   point where we can work together," she said.

   Biden is set to be inaugurated on the west steps of the U.S. Capitol at
   noon on the 20th in a ceremony that is steeped in U.S. history every
   four years. This time, however, it is fraught with tension after the
   January 6 storming of the Capitol by a mob of thousands of supporters
   of President Donald Trump. The outgoing president urged them to march
   to the building as lawmakers met to certify Biden's victory in the
   Electoral College that is determinative of U.S. presidential elections.

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