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Hey there, I'm Eugene Daniels, White House correspondent and co-author of Playbook.

Joseph R. Biden started his first campaign for the White House on June 9, 1987.

That's 12,279 days ago.

At noon, today, you'll be sworn in as America's 46th president in front of the

smallest crowd in modern presidential history. Between those two polls lies a great deal of grief and

loss 36 years as a senator. Two more presidential runs in eight years as the right hand to the

first of black president.

As Biden told his boss in 2010, today is a big effing deal.

Good inauguration day morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook

Audio Briefing. This is it, Donald Trump's last day in office, and Joe Biden

and Kamala Harris is first, as commander-in-chief and vice president. It's also day one of our first

female, black, and Asian-American vice president. On a call with the transition team last night,

senior aides laid out Biden's first day plans, and they are packed.

He's set to sign 15 executive orders today, including orders for a nationwide mask and social

distancing mandate on federal property. On his first day, he's scuttling Trump's Muslim ban,

revoking the Keystone XL pipeline, and sending a proposal to Congress that will include

an eight-year

path to citizenship for immigrants without legal status. And while he's at it, Biden will halt

construction of the border wall, rejoin the Paris Climate Accords, extend the federal eviction

notice moratorium, and the existing pause on student loan payments and interest. As Politico's

Lauren-Baron Barone Lopez and Alice

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