In a stark contrast to the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Congress certified Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election without any challenges.
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without challenge, in stark contrast to the January 6, 2021 violence as his mob of supporters stormed the US Capitol . Lawmakers convened under heavy security and a winter snowstorm to meet the date required by law to certify the election.
Layers of tall black fences flanked the Capitol complex in a stark reminder of what happened four years ago, when a defeated Trump sent rallygoers to “fight like hell” in what became the most gruesome attack on the seat of American democracy in 200 years. The whole process this time concluded swiftly and without unrest. One by one, a tally of the electoral votes from each state was read aloud to polite applause in the House, no one objected and the results were certified. “Today, America’s democracy stood,” Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, said after presiding over the session—as is the role of her office—and her own defeat to Trump. But Trump’s legacy from 2021 leaves an extraordinary fact: The candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time and is legitimately returning to the White House, his inauguration in two weeks. While Monday’s outcome revived a US tradition that launches the peaceful transfer of presidential power, what’s unclear is if Jan. 6, 2021 was the anomaly or if this year’s calm becomes the outlier. Trump denies that he lost four years ago, muses about staying beyond the Constitution’s two-term White House limit and promises to pardon some of the more than 1,250 people who have pleaded guilty or were convicted of crimes for the Capitol sieg
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