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10.09am GMT
There’s one very obvious and immediate legacy of Trump’s presidency and the 6 January storming of the US Capitol that it inspired. Joe Biden’s inauguration tomorrow will take place amid the tightest security measures in Washington in recent memory.
25,000 National Guard soldiers from across the east coast are stationed in the city. The streets around the Capitol remain eerily empty as all but the most determined protesters have stayed away.
10.05am GMT
In a cold, sombre, damp Washington four years ago this Wednesday, Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States and delivered an inaugural address now remembered for two words: American carnage.
He delivered, but not as he promised. Trump pledged to end the carnage of inner-city poverty, rusting factories, broken schools and the scourge of criminal gangs and drugs. Instead his presidency visited upon the nation the carnage of about 400,000 coronavirus deaths, the worst year for jobs since the second world war and the biggest stress test for American democracy since the civil war.
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10.00am GMT
Welcome to our live coverage of US politics on the day before Joe Biden becomes president.