Newsman: The United State Congress has certified officially the November’ 3rd, 2020 election results and the Joe Biden’s victory after deadly insurrection at Capitol Hill. Senate President Vice President Mike Pence announced Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden as the President-elect and Kamala Harris as vice president of the United States. The joint session of the Congress were reconvened in the night after thousands of Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol Hill and four people died including one women shot dead and 13 arrested. The certification announcement was made in the early morning on Thursday, the 7th January after hours long debate on republican’s objection to the election results of Arizona and Pennsylvania. Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump as electors casted their votes on Dec. 14, and Biden, who got 7 million more votes than Trump. Soon after Congress confirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s election win, and following the storming of the Capitol by a mob of violent Trump supporters President Donald Trump on Thursday committed to “an orderly transition” of power.
After the unprecedented assault on Capitol Hill , Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Ted Lieu, D-Calif., circulated a letter among colleagues urging Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump unfit for office, which could lead to his early removal.
The congress confirmed the orderly transfer of power with a statement released by the White House; the president said that this month will bring to end “the greatest first term in presidential history” though again made false claims about the outcome of the election.However, Twitter had suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours after he continued to push conspiracy theories about the election following the chaos at the Capitol.
Washington was in a huge chaos as lawmakers were forced to pause the official count of the Electoral College votes and flee when Trump’s followers stormed the building while the Electoral College vote was in process to be certified. A woman was shot inside the Capitol and died later, the National Guard was activated and the mayor ordered a 12-hour curfew in the city that began at 6 p.m. Three other adults died after what are believed to be some type of medical emergencies around the Capitol grounds, the DC police chief said.
The riots interrupted debate in both chambers about the Republican objection to the Arizona results.
In reconvening the Senate after order had been restored, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the nation’s government had faced down greater threats than what he called an “unhinged crowd.”
“I want to say to the American people: The United States Senate will not be intimidated,” McConnell said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, called the rioters “domestic terrorists,” and blamed President Donald Trump for inciting them. “This will be a stain on our country, not so easily washed away,” he said.
During the counting of the votes, representatives raised objections about some other states, but these were not entertained because senators either withdrew or did not sign on after the day’s chaos. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., signed on to an objection to Pennsylvania’s result but it was defeated in both chambers.
The Senate voted to reject a Republican objection to the results in Arizona by a lopsided vote of 93-6. The House rejected the objection 303-121. In the Pennsylvania objection, the Senate rejected it 92-7 and it failed in the House 282-138.
The senators who voted in favor of the Arizona objection were Hawley; Ted Cruz of Texas; John Kennedy of Louisiana; Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi; Roger Marshall of Kansas; and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
The senators who voted for the Pennsylvania objection were Cruz; Hawley; Hyde-Smith; Marshall; Tuberville; and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; and Rick Scott of Florida.
when they reconvened the House and Senate had picked up where they left off hours earlier — debating a Republican objection to the results in Arizona. But the chaos of the day appeared to leave a searing impression among lawmakers, including some Republicans who dropped their objections to counting Biden electors as a result, even as others gave no indication they would back down.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma had been in the middle of his speech supporting the objection against counting Arizona’s Electoral College vote when the Capitol was breached and lawmakers had to be whisked to safety said,
“Obviously, the commission that we’ve asked for is not going to happen at this point, and I understand that,” he said. “And we’re headed towards tonight — towards the certification of Joe Biden, who will be the president of the United States.”
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., an appointed senator who lost her election runoff Tuesday night, said that she had intended to object to Biden electors but that “the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider” and that she “cannot in good conscience” follow through.
Loeffler nonetheless doubled down on the false claims that there were “last-minute changes” and “serious irregularities” in the election, seemingly justifying her plans to object to the process. Her colleagues applauded after she finished her remarks.
But Hawley, the first senator to announce his plans to object to the counting of votes, defended his intentions and later objected to Pennsylvania.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally and frequent golfing partner, said Biden was lawfully elected, and it’s time to accept that.
“Count me out. Enough is enough,” he said. “We’ve got to end it.”
Electoral College votes began being officially counted Wednesday at 1 p.m. in a joint session of Congress, where Republican allies of Trump began to object to the votes’ being counted from numerous states that Biden won despite pushback from McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence.
The first objection, to Arizona’s vote, took place minutes into the proceeding, as Trump-supporting protesters, egged on by the president, descended on the Capitol. After the protesters breached the Capitol steps and began to clash with police, parts of the building were placed on lockdown, the congressional tally was paused and Pence was taken to a secure location.
Before the vote count, Trump urged thousands of his supporters at a rally near the White House to head to the Capitol to make sure their “voices are heard.” Trump, who has falsely claimed he won the election, spoke for over an hour before the violence broke out.
He repeatedly urged Pence, who had been presiding over the vote count, to throw out states’ votes or somehow send them back to the states, which he does not have the power to do.
“Mike Pence has to come through for us,” he said. “If he doesn’t that will be a sad day for our country.”
In a statement sent as Trump was still speaking, Pence indicated that he would not join Trump’s effort.
In response, Trump tweeted that “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the day would be “a stain on our country, not so easily washed away,” and he called Trump “undoubtedly our worst” president in history.
