Congress early Thursday affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory over President Donald Trump who said he will permit an orderly power transition after several Republican attempts against the certification effort failed and a siege on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters brought the proceedings to a halt.
In a statement published moments after the lengthy certification proceedings ended, Trump said even though he disagrees with the outcome of the election “nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on Jan. 20th.”
Vice President Mike Pence early Thursday affirmed the election results that said Biden had won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, certifying the former vice president and senator for Delaware will be the 46th president of the United States.
The affirmation followed hours of proceedings that began a day earlier and were interrupted Wednesday afternoon by an assault on the U.S. Capitol building by Trump supporters who attempted to stop the counting of the electoral votes, resulting in the shooting death of a woman and dozens of arrests.
Inside the chambers, Republicans repeatedly challenged the certification of the states’ electoral votes, with the last objection being against certifying those from Pennsylvania — an effort that both houses of Congress struck down following a lengthy debate.
The Senate voted 92-7 and the House voted 282-138 to reject the move challenging the commonwealth’s voters.
Sens. Ted Cruz from Texas, Josh Hawley from Missouri, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, Roger Marshall from Kansas, Rick Scott from Florida, Tommy Tuberville from Alabama and Cindy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi voted to go against certifying the votes of Pennsylvania.
The vote was called after Pence accepted the objection from Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who said he had it in writing and signed by Hawley and 80 House representatives.
“Sadly but resolutely I object to the electoral votes of my beloved commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the grounds of multiple constitutional infractions that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given,” Perry said in announcing his objection.
An objection must be signed by at least one senator and one House representative to initiative a 2-hour debate that is followed by a vote.
Late Wednesday, the House voted 303-122 and the Senate voted 93-6 to block another Republican objection raised against Arizona’s electoral votes, which came after GOP House members attempted to object to the certification of votes in Georgia, but no senator would sign on to the effort.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia had said days earlier she would object to the certification of the state’s electoral votes but rescinded her objection after Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, bringing the proceedings to a halt for several hours.
“When I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of electoral votes. However, the events that transpired have forced me to reconsider and I cannot now in good conscience object to the certification of these electors,” she said from the floor. “The violence, the lawlessness and siege of the halls of Congress are abhorrent and stand as a direct attack on what my objection was intended to protect: the sanctity of the American democratic process.”
At least three other Republican lawmakers rescinded their intentions to object to states’ electoral votes following the storming of the U.S. Capitol building.
Authorities secured the building before 8 p.m. when the proceedings restarted, but only after a woman who had breached the Capitol was shot dead by police.
As of Wednesday night, at last 52 people had been arrested, the majority for breaking a 6 p.m. curfew that was put in place for Washington, D.C., following the siege.
In a statement, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington called the attack on the building “disgraceful and un-American.”
“Thugs assaulted Capitol police officers, breached and defaced our Capitol building, put people’s lives in danger and disregarded the values we hold dear as Americans. To anyone involved, shame on you,” she said.
Rodgers said her objection was to give voice to concern that electoral procedures were changed without public input, but she has decided to uphold electoral college votes “and I encourage Donald Trump to condemn and put an end to this madness.”
Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Steven Daines, R-Mont., issued a joint statement, stating “we must rise about the violence.”
“We now need the entire Congress to come together and vote to certify the election results,” the pair said. “We must stand together as Americans.”
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The Biden criminal crime family, the liberal party bosses and so called Republican governors, like the one in Georgia, stole the election, through fraud. Good by, America! Welcome to communism!
Me thinks that it’s a bit too late for any claim for an orderly transition of power, and Biden will wear the black hat of it for 4 years or less, if his own don’t take him down to elevate the communist Kamala first. Oh the media and establishment panderers of imagined unity will blanket and dismiss the reality of the non-peaceful agitated and divisive protests that they the Democrats set precedent for months ago, to encourage THE PEOPLE to ignore the reality and causes of what just took place. If THE PEOPLE at the capitol were the terrorists, not the patriots they would have torched the grandstand built for Biden’s inauguration. So just what does a “Virtual” Inauguration look like? More black masked politicians wearing matching black hats? That aught to encourage peaceful thoughts of unity among THE PEOPLE locked down in their homes by corrupt Democrats who used to just steal their money, but now steal their freedoms of movement and votes? I’ve laid in a supply of barf bags to use when Biden Steps up to the microphone for a phony plea of national unity, when he knows it was his party’s promoted division that put him over the top, and THE PEOPLE under his thumb.
“Orderly”.. TRUMPS taking over, was not orderly. Bush, when he took over from clinton, wasn’t orderly.
SO WHY THE HELL do they keep demanding WE BE Orderly when handing power back to them??
we are the laughing stock of the world the most powerful and prosperous nation on gods earth can not get a election
right.the commies have taken over without firing a shot.
the usa has fallen.
RIP USA.. WE knew you well. While you lasted at least.
So, a relatively small number of people of questionable affiliation storm a building and these spineless senators turn their backs on 80 million citizens. I guess the Antifa action was successful in giving these self serving senators the excuse they needed to stab the rest of us in the back. Goodbye to any hope of having a fair election in the future.
“Goodbye to any hope of having a fair election in the future”
Really?
You think that is all that has been lost?
I saw the existence of a republic which is only a shadow of its former self, frail and fragile, toothless and weak, not having the courage or the strength to stand up for what is right but capitulating before what ever breeze threatens it, knowing full well one half of the population will commit violence at every turn and the other half convincing itself there is something noble in refusing to fight back
I am thinking the best course of action is to hang back and let the left devour the weak so as to clear the field for their inevitable slaughter, or the weak can find the courage to get up off their knees and stop handing those who will fight over to the enemy
YES.. I firmly do.
Trump’s seem to given up.
The GOP is a shell of what it used to be.
Voting?? What a laugh.. Why bother when the dem voter fraud machine is not just CONDONED, but covered up for..
SO WHAT THE hell is left?
Did we expect anything else from the no balled cowards we sent to DC. Very few have any desire to represent our interests.
Too many women, not enough Testosterone let alone gonads. Appartently there are just some things that only a man can accomplish. Defending the weak from overpowering bullies is one of them.
And even Leffler, who TRUMP FOUGHT FOR, stuck her tail between her legs, and turned on us…. Talk about not having any gratitude…
Why do I feel like I’m being repeatedly stabbed in the back by the Communist Democrat Party?
WORSE< we're getting stabbed both in the back, AND THE FRONT< by our own party too.
Its called National unity by burying the hatchet,,,,,in our backs.
The violence at the demonstration screamed of antifa subversives, it was not
Trump supporters but agents of Soros, the CCP and communist democrats.
All of the work to bring light and truth to the election brought down by
a handful of thugs and idiots. I can not believe that those supporting the
correction of the stolen election folded so easily. Time will tell, the truth
will out and traitors will face the highest authority for duplicity and
evil against America, God sees all, knows all and will correct the unfaithful.
William
You are so right. The violence was not committed by Trump supporters, but rather by the likes of Antifa and Black Lives Matter funded by one evil George Soros. It is so mind boggling that we can not get him out of our country. I have a little jingle: They cheated, they lied. They called him a winner. He lost it, he’s unfit,; he’s not a beginner. Five decades in power with nothing to show for. Can’t ever speak anymore without making gaffes galore. Self enrichment is his only game, and with his dirty son and family, it’s his only claim to fame.
“I can not believe that those supporting the correction of the stolen election folded so easily.”
It is only evidence of what the people have grown to trust
Not G-d, but the power of man to give them a better life
“It is when a people forget G-d that tyrants forge their chains.” ― Patrick Henry
And why do people not put their trust in G-d?
Because they have made him smaller than themselves. They do not see him as holy
There is an organization, Jews for Jesus. Was curious about them, did some research, found there was a group only a few miles away. Made an appointment to talk with the Rabbi
Ask why they spelled G-d with a hyphen, he said it is because the word is holy. I thought it utterly ridiculous, it is just a word, not G-d but started writing it that way so as to not offend
That is when I found how I think about a word is how I view something
Spelling it with a hyphen makes the middle have nothing there, it is exactly like the holy of holies in the Temple, nothing there, that is when you see the existence of everything
Time to change the name of this site from gopusa.
I wonder, how swiftly the left will work, to STOP sites like this, from existing anymore?
This person they call Biden would NOT make a good dog catcher, he has spent his life BS ing people, telling untrue stories, and the Chinese are going to eat him alive.
WHY would they ‘eat alive’, their willing servant?