Joe Biden: Our democracy is under unprecedented assault

President-elect Joe Biden has urged Donald Trump to call an end to the siege of the Capitol. “Our democracy is under unprecedented assault. Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,“ Mr Biden said from Delaware. “The scenes at the Capitol do not represent America, do not represent who we are. They are a small number of extremists. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition.” He added: “I am genuinely shocked and saddened that the beacon of democracy is seeing such a dark moment. We will endure here and we wil