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Friday, January 20, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Friday, January 20, 2017
Crowds in Washington may not match Obama’s 2008 oath-taking
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLess than two hours before the swearing-in, there are still wide swaths of empty space in the National Mall.
There are strong suggestions that the crowds will not match President Barack Obama’s first inaugural eight years ago.
Some people were prevented by security barriers from getting closer to the Capitol despite having plenty of space in front of them.
The grass on the Mall was protected by white plastic and there were some muddy spots amid intermittent rain.
–AP
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