The inauguration needs to be done quickly and efficiently with the minimum number of people at a secure, undisclosed location.

There are people within government who supported insurrection, which led to the security failure at the Capitol. Since there is not time to adequately secure even a curtailed COVID-modified ceremony given the current situation, we must limit the attack surface.

The way to project American strength right now is by swiftly proceeding with a peaceful transfer of power and securing our government and institutions — not by pretending everything is fine.

It’s not fine, and we should not put the peaceful transition of power, or the security of the President and Vice President, at unnecessary risk at an obviously dangerous moment.

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