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2024 Election highlights: Republicans win Senate majority [1]
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Date: 2024-11
Construction workers build the Presidential Inaugural Parade Reviewing Stands as media gather in Lafayette Square outside the White House on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
For all of the heady talk of democracy and the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next, a presidential transition also involves things that are less conceptual — and more mundane.
That includes construction of all the temporary structures for the presidential inauguration, set to occur two months and two weeks from today. In front of the White House, workers had fenced a section of Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Park as they constructed the Presidential Inaugural Parade Reviewing Stands. A longtime inauguration tradition, the temporary pavilion is where Trump and his family will take in the parade as it winds in front of the White House on Jan. 20.
On the National Mall, work had also begun on the inauguration platform, from where Trump will be sworn in to office and address the nation. Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 6, Trump supporters rushed the Capitol and used pieces of the half-built structure to attack police officers. Workers on the site had to flee.
This year, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle gathered in September to drive the first nails for the structures, symbolizing the unity they aspired to forge amidst a divisive presidential campaign.
It is, of course, a temporary structure. And it will come down as soon as Trump starts his term.
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