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Under ramped-up security and pandemic-era restrictions on gathering, President-elect Joe Biden is set to be sworn in Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. trib.al/TMUHbiL

Guests, including Vice President Mike Pence and several former presidents and first ladies, were ceremonially introduced as they walked onto the inauguration platform build onto the Capitol’s West Front.

President-elect Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive at the steps of the U.S. Capitol for the start of the official inauguration ceremonies, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

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Biden and Harris will be sworn in around 9 a.m. PST on the west steps of the Capitol, where two weeks earlier insurrectionists pushed past police lines and breached the building’s doors.

President Donald Trump will not attend his successor’s inauguration and will be the first president to choose to skip it since Andrew Johnson in 1869.

Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Biden; Justice Sonya Sotomayor will swear in Kamala Harris as vice president. Biden will be the oldest president to take the oath of office. Kamala Harris will become the first woman and person of color to serve as vice president.

Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as her husband Doug Emhoff holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

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Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In the opening of his inaugural address, Biden said the day’s transfer of power was a victory for democracy and a testament to the strength of the U.S. Constitution.

“The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded,” Biden said.

Biden also thanked former presidents of both parties, as well as former Vice President Mike Pence, for attending the ceremony, drawing attention to the absence of his immediate predecessor.

After the inaugural address, the new president will make his way to the other side of the Capitol for the long-standing tradition of the new commander in chief inspecting the troops. The Pass in Review ceremony is designed to reflect the peaceful transfer of power.

CORRECTION: Harris will be the second person of color to serve as VP. Charles Curtis, who was Native American, was the first. Curtis served under Herbert Hoover.