{"id":88959,"date":"2025-01-06T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-congress-certifies-donald-trump-election-victory-for-jan-20-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:43:31","slug":"us-congress-certifies-donald-trump-election-victory-for-jan-20-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-congress-certifies-donald-trump-election-victory-for-jan-20-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress certifies Donald Trump election victory for Jan 20 inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The US Congress formally certified Republican President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s November election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1870628\">victory<\/a> over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, clearing the way for him to be sworn in on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>The certification of the election results on Monday in the 50 states and the District of Columbia was accomplished in a brief, formal ceremony during a joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>It was presided over by Harris, acting in her vice-presidential role as president of the Senate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"LIVE: Kamala Harris to preside over 2024 election certification, four years after Capitol riot\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5zqH_E0YbLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The quadrennial ritual stood in sharp contrast to four years ago when a mob of Trump supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1600196\">stormed the Capitol<\/a> in a failed bid to block the certification of then-president Trump\u2019s 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump continues to falsely claim that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud and had warned throughout his 2024 campaign that he harboured similar concerns until his Nov 5 defeat of Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress certifies our great election victory today \u2014 a big moment in history. MAGA!\u201d Trump <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113781668884628397\">wrote<\/a> on his social media platform Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>The joint session of Congress proceeded even as a winter storm hovered over the nation\u2019s capital, dropping about 15 centimetres of snow and snarling travel.<\/p>\n<p>The final certification backed up preliminary findings that Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris\u2019s 226.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"republicans-control-white-house-congress\" href=\"#republicans-control-white-house-congress\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Republicans control White House, Congress<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1870606\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Republicans also captured a majority in the US Senate and held a narrow edge in the House in November\u2019s election, which will give Trump the party support he needs to implement his planned agenda of tax cuts and a crackdown on immigrants living in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats did not try to block the certification of Trump\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must renew our commitment to safeguarding American democracy,\u201d No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark said in a statement earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs elected leaders, our loyalty must be to the Constitution, first and always. We are here to honour the will of the people and the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security inside and outside the Capitol was heightened in preparation for the certification and was expected to remain in place through Trump\u2019s swearing-in.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol grounds were ringed by metal fences hundreds of yards from the US Capitol, and accessible only via checkpoints guarded by uniformed police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Convoys of black police vehicles were on hand, led by a 10-wheel Baltimore police mobile command centre. New York Police Department reinforcements were also patrolling the area.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, extra teams of uniformed US Capitol Police officers were checking IDs at entrance sites, including doors and underground tunnels, leading to the House and Senate chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said he plans to pardon some of the more than 1,500 people charged with taking part in the Jan 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, when a mob fought with police, smashing its way in through windows and doors and chanting, \u201cHang Mike Pence,\u201d referring to Trump\u2019s then-vice president, in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1865578\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the 2021 melee at the Capitol, rioters surged past police barricades, assaulting about 140 officers and causing more than $2.8 million in damage. Multiple police officers who battled protesters died in the weeks that followed, some by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of that day\u2019s violence, Congress passed legislation late in 2022 bolstering guardrails to ensure that the certification process is administered in a legal manner.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these changes were directly in response to Trump\u2019s actions leading up to and including Jan 6, 2021. For example, the new law asserts that the vice president\u2019s role is largely ceremonial.<\/p>\n<p>In a <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/01\/05\/president-biden-jan-6-democracy\/\">op-ed<\/a>, Biden slammed Trump\u2019s allies for downplaying the violence of 2021 and urged Americans to be \u201cproud that our democracy withstood this assault\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot accept a repeat of what occurred four years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unrelenting effort has been underway to rewrite \u2014 even erase \u2014 the history of that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was impeached for inciting the 2021 insurrection after delivering a raucous speech outside the White House early in the day, demanding that supporters march on the Capitol and \u201cfight like hell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has vowed to investigate the House committee that probed the riot and found that Trump had instigated it after the failure of a host of other schemes to overturn an election he knew he had lost.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement the Justice Department had over the last four years charged more than 1,500 people suspected of involvement in the \u201cunprecedented attack on a cornerstone of our system of government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The certification was designated for the first time as a national security special event, with 500 National Guard personnel on standby.<\/p>\n<p>But the federal government and Washington public schools were closed today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour years ago today, our nation watched in horror as a terrorist mob stormed the Capitol grounds and desecrated our temple of Democracy in a violent attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power,\u201d Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who was House speaker at the time of the rebellion, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe January 6th insurrection shook our Republic to its core \u2014 and left behind physical scars and emotional trauma on members of our congressional community and our country that endure to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNancyPelosi%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02fR3jDpaBKVDZhQV46TxrTk8Cbd7UdGCFDM9QRTeEyw56qQow6vrFCVjvy68VMXvxl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Congress formally certified Republican President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s November election victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, clearing the way for him to be sworn in on January 20. The certification of the election results on Monday in the 50 states and the District of Columbia was accomplished in a brief, formal ceremony during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2025\/01\/06235158f8540b7.jpg?r=235236","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}