’This is your time’: Obama offers congratulations to Biden on Inauguration Day
Welcome to the POTUS club, Joe!
Former President Barack Obama offered warm congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden Wednesday as he prepared to take office.
“Congratulations to my friend, President @JoeBiden! This is your time,” Obama wrote on Twitter.
The 44th president jumped the gun a bit by referring to Biden as president about two hours before he officially takes office.
Obama tweeted a photo of the two allies walking out of the Oval Office when Biden was Obama’s vice president.
Minutes later, Barack and Michelle Obama arrived at the Capitol to attend Biden’s inaugural.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has navigated a half-century in American politics by relentlessly positioning himself at the core of the Democratic Party. Wherever that power center shifted, there Biden has been, whether as the young senator who opposed court-ordered busing in school integration cases or the soon-to-be 46th president pitching an agenda on par with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great.