Biden Urges Decency After ‘Assault’ On Democracy

January 7, 2021 4:09 am

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden is calling for the restoration of “simple decency” after a mob incited by his predecessor stormed the U.S. Capitol and delayed Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory. Biden had planned to deliver remarks on the economy and the coronavirus pandemic in a speech in his native Delaware on Wednesday. But shortly before he was to begin speaking, demonstrators broke into the Capitol, reaching as far as the House floor and Senate chamber. In his remarks, Biden said the nation’s democracy “is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times.”