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Nowhere Man

Joe Biden is the president who isn’t there

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

23 January 2021

9:00 AM

‘The virtual inauguration of Joe Biden is a fitting culmination to a campaign which was notable for its absences; a candidate who ‘put a lid’ on his activities by noon most days; a convention without delegates, rallies without fans, press conferences without journalists, journalists without questions.

The most striking absence however was that of Biden himself.

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