Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman recites The Hill We Climb

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Poet Amanda Gorman referenced the Jan.6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the poem she read at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, saying ‘While democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.’

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