Four years after supporters of Donald Trump They tried to attack the United States Capitol today, Congress has certified him as the winner of the last election held in November 2024.
With extreme security measures, the Congress session was held to read the results of the elections that occurred last November.
The session was chaired by the Vice President Kamala Harriswho is president of the Senate. Whoever was his competition in the last election announced to Trump as winner.
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312 to 226 was the vote count and after this the Republicans celebrated this while the Democrats applauded.
“Today Congress certifies our great electoral victory: a great moment in the history” of the country, the president-elect expressed this Monday in his platform Truth Socialposting a few minutes later a photo of a crowd of his supporters gathered in Washington around election time.
What happened at the Capitol in 2021?
In 2021, that role was at the center of Trump’s protests. The billionaire, who later repeated without providing evidence that the election had been “stolen” from him, urged his vice president Mike Pence to refuse to certify Biden’s victory.
And in a speech outside the White House on the morning of January 6, he called on his supporters to “fight like demons,” shortly before thousands of them marched on the Capitol.
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The attackers beat overwhelmed police officers with iron bars, smashed windows before entering the building, and many shouted, “Hang Mike Pence.”
That day four people died in the crowd, two of them from a heart attack and another from a possible drug overdose. The last one, Ashli Babbitt, was killed by a police officer when she tried to force her way into the House of Representatives.
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