Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 election in a ceremony marked by security and a stark contrast to the January 6th, 2021 Capitol attack. The process was swift and uneventful, with lawmakers accepting the results despite the lingering shadow of the previous election's disruption.
WASHINGTON — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings that unfolded Monday without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the Capitol .
Republicans who challenged the 2020 election results when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden now express greater trust in U.S. elections after he defeatedHarris. The day's return to a U.S. tradition that launches the peaceful transfer of presidential power comes with an asterisk as Trump prepares to take office in two weeks with a revived sense of authority. He 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 siege.
Biden, speaking Sunday at the White House, said, “We’ve got to get back to the basic, normal transfer of power." What Trump did last time, Biden said, “was a genuine threat to democracy. I’m hopeful we’re beyond that now.” Harris presided over the counting, as is the requirement for the vice president, and certified her own defeat — much the way Democrat Al Gore did in 2001 and Republican Richard Nixon did in 1961.
Under changes to the Electoral Count Act, it now requires one-fifth of lawmakers, instead of just one in each chamber, to raise any objections to election results. With security as tight as it is for the Super Bowl or the Olympics, the Capitol is at its highest security level possible. No tourists were allowed.Republicans, who met with Trump behind closed doors at the White House before Jan. 6, 2021, to craft a complex plan to challenge his election defeat, have accepted his win this time.
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