Senator Amy Klobuchar, who opened the swearing-in of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington DC on Wednesday, called presidential inauguration “the culmination of 244 years of democracy”.

Klobuchar was born in 1960 and is the first elected Senator to represent the
northern state of Minnesota. The American lawyer-turned politician has been
serving the US Senate since early 2007 and has gained great fame through her
work. Klobuchar, who affiliates her ideology and work with the Democratic party
in the US, is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. 

The US Senator announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the
US Presidential elections in 2020 but retracted later to endorse and
support the candidacy of Joe Biden as the President. She is known as the
‘rising star’ of the democratic party. 

The politician was also invited to Biden’s inauguration ceremony in
Washington where she gave a heartfelt address to the American people and
projected a sense of hope through her words. 

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Klobuchar, who emphasised the history of American presidencies and their legacies, said, “When Abraham Lincoln gave his first inaugural address in front of this Capitol, the dome was only partially constructed, braced by ropes of steel. He promised he would finish it. He was criticised for spending funds on it during the Civil War. To those critics, he replied: ‘If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.’ And it did. And it will”. 

The influential Democratic senator, while referring to the violent incident at the US Capitol on January 6,  added, “This is the day our democracy picks itself up, brushes off the dust, and does what America always does, goes forward as a nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”