US Congress certifies Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 presidential election

The quiescent proceeding contrasts with efforts by Trump’s ain supporters to overturn his 2020 nonaccomplishment by storming the US Capitol.

The United States Congress has certified Donald Trump’s triumph successful November’s presidential election, clearing a last hurdle for his instrumentality to the White House aboriginal this month.

Monday’s ceremonial successful Congress officially validated the 2024 Electoral College results.

Overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s main rival successful the election, the lawsuit passed quickly and with small fanfare.

“Today was evidently a precise important day,” Harris, who besides serves arsenic the president of the Senate, said successful remarks afterwards.

“It was astir what should beryllium the norm and what the American radical should beryllium capable to instrumentality for granted, which is that 1 of the astir important pillars of our ideology is that determination volition beryllium a peaceful transportation of power.”

The mostly procedural matter marked a stark opposition with the past clip Congress convened to certify Electoral College votes, connected January 6, 2021.

During that ceremony, thousands of Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol successful an effort to overturn then-President Trump’s decision successful the 2020 election.

Lawmakers were forced to evacuate arsenic doors were smashed, constabulary officers were attacked and 1 protester was changeable to decease portion trying to participate a enclosure done a breached window.

The onslaught took spot aft Trump held a rally adjacent connected the Ellipse, a parkland southbound of the White House, wherever helium reiterated mendacious claims that the predetermination had been stolen done monolithic fraud.

Critics roundly condemned the onslaught arsenic an battle connected democracy, and the US Department of Justice has since charged 1,583 participants with national crimes.

As of Monday, astir 1,009 person pleaded guilty, with 327 offering blameworthy pleas to felony charges.

Trump himself faced 2 transgression indictments for his relation successful trying to overturn the 2020 predetermination results: A national lawsuit successful Washington, DC, was precocious dismissed, portion a state-level lawsuit successful Georgia is stalled but ongoing.

Nevertheless, 4 years later, Trump is acceptable to instrumentality to powerfulness connected the heels of his astir palmy statesmanlike run to date.

In November, Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris’s 226 and became the archetypal Republican campaigner to triumph the popular vote since 2004.

Trump’s Republican Party volition besides instrumentality power of Congress aft winning majorities successful some the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Many successful the enactment person since embraced the Republican leader’s mendacious claims astir the 2020 election.

“Congress certifies our large predetermination triumph contiguous – a large infinitesimal successful history. MAGA!” Trump wrote connected his level Truth Social connected Monday, utilizing an acronym for his slogan, “Make America Great Again”.

Harris, meanwhile, urged respect for the tenets of US democracy. She cited Monday’s peaceful certification arsenic an illustration of the close mode forward.

“I bash judge precise powerfully that America’s ideology is lone arsenic beardown arsenic our willingness to combat for it,” she said. “Otherwise it is precise fragile, and it volition not beryllium capable to withstand moments of crisis.”

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