Joe Biden Confirmed To Attend US Presidential Inauguration, White House: It's About The American People

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre with President Joe Biden. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House)

JAKARTA - President Joe Biden will attend the next United States presidential inauguration in January, regardless of who wins the presidential election to be held on Tuesday next week, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre has promised to make a peaceful transfer of power.

"This president believes in a peaceful transfer of power, and that's what you'll see the president doing," Jean-Pierre said.

"It's not about him. It's about the American people. That's what the American people need to see regardless of who wins," he added.

"He will definitely take part in that," he said, stressing the president who stepped down regularly to attend his replacement inauguration.

However, he did not mention the Republican former President Donald Trump's decision not to attend Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021.

At that time, Trump and his wife Melania left the White House before Joe Biden's inauguration, missing a traditional welcome from the residents of the next presidential residence and the inauguration itself.

Meanwhile, Trump's Vice President Mike Pence, who was threatened with being hanged by several Trump supporters during the deadly attack on January 6, 2021 on the Capitol, and his wife Karen attended Joe Biden's inauguration.

It is known that the incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party will compete with Donald Trump from the Republican Party in the presidential election which will be held on November 5.