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The House and Senate suspended the joint ratification session of Joe Biden’s victory after supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the Congress building after he asked them to go to the building to avoid what they described as electoral theft, while the Pentagon refused to deploy the National Guard.
The Al-Jazeera camera monitored the assault on the Congress building by Trump supporters who reached the balcony near the podium that will witness the inauguration of President Biden, and clashes broke out between security and protesters from the Trump supporters inside the Congress building.
BREAKAGE: Clashes are reported inside the US Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/2twyZAD6wJ
– BNO News (@BNONews) January 6, 2021
Trump supporters also stormed the Senate hall where Joe Biden’s victory was upheld.
CNN cited Washington police for requesting additional security support, while the mayor announced the imposition of a curfew in all parts of the city.
Police used tear gas to prevent more Trump supporters from storming the Congress building after clashes between protesters and police.
Congressional security personnel fired to protect lawmakers when Trump supporters stormed meeting rooms.
Witnesses circulated and protesters chanted outside the building, knocking on doors and smashing windows, amid attempts by police to close the doors.
According to media sources, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, asked the United States Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard, but the Department refused to do so, while the Governor of Virginia sent the National Guard and 200 state troopers to Washington to help monitor security.
For his part, US Vice President Mike Pence said that the violence and destruction occurring in the Congress building must stop and that anyone concerned about respecting law enforcement officers should leave the building immediately.
In turn, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called on protesters to leave the Congress building now, stating that what is happening is a national shame.
Holy shit pic.twitter.com/dofEG2SmqP
– Jim Newell (@jim_newell) January 6, 2021
The halls of the House and Senate Congress were reportedly evacuated after Vice President Mike Pence was moved to safety.
In a tweet, Trump said: “Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution,” and Trump asked his followers on Twitter to support the congressional police and law enforcement. and keep the protests peaceful.
But leaders of the Republican Party and former members of the Trump administration are asking him to urgently condemn what is happening in the Congress building for the future and unity of the country.
Trump rallies his followers
Before the congressional session to ratify the results, the outgoing US president renewed his failure to admit defeat to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, and confirmed the fraud of the presidential election results, accusing the media of dishonesty.
Trump told a crowd of his supporters in a park near the White House: “We will never give up and we will never admit defeat.”
He added that he won the elections a lot and that the results were not close, indicating that he obtained 75 million electoral votes, “However they say that I did not win.”
Trump pinned his hopes on Vice President Mike Pence, saying, “I hope Pence does the right thing because if he does, we will win the election.”
BREAKING: Pro-Trump protesters have violated the Capitol.pic.twitter.com/mDyvXy8YqC
– Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 6, 2021
The outgoing president added that Pence must protect the constitution, explaining that all he has to do is ask the states to reconsider ratifying the elections.
He launched an attack on the media and the press, and demanded that the cameras be turned on to watch the thousands, he says, accusing the media and the press in general of being enemies of the people.
At the same time, Trump aimed his arrows at what he described as weak Republicans who “compete like a boxer with their hands tied behind their back.”
In his attack on his opponent Biden, Trump said: “He will get an illegitimate president, but we cannot allow it.”
Suspension of the certification session
Arizona Republican Paul Gossar opposed the election result in his state and Senator Ted Cruz joined him.
Mike Pence, outgoing Vice President Donald Trump, decided his position throughout the process, confirming that his role is only ceremonial, ending pressure from President Trump to demand that the results be returned to the states.
Pence presided as president of the Senate and announces the results, and becomes the candidate who receives at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes; The next president.
In a statement issued by Mark Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, Pence said he shared the concerns of millions of Americans about fraud and welcomed the efforts of Republican members of Congress to veto the results of the election, of conformity with the authority conferred by law.
Voting by electoral college members in all 50 states, plus Washington, DC, showed Democratic candidate Joe Biden winning with 306 votes, compared to Republican candidate Donald Trump receiving 232 votes.
The recount and ratification step in the joint session of both houses of Congress was a routine event intended to codify results that would be accepted by the two candidates and their parties, but due to President Trump’s continued refusal to acknowledge defeat and his Claim to steal and rig the election, all eyes are on what the meeting could lead to, amid pressure from Trump on his deputy, Pence. To turn the results in your favor.
For his part, the president of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that the courts rejected the electoral demands and found no evidence of widespread fraud, noting that “nothing before us proves the existence of serious errors in the elections that may tilt the result “.
He said that protecting the Constitution of the United States requires that we respect the limits of our powers.
In turn, the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, stressed that the people decide the elections, not the Congress.
“What the Republicans are doing embarrasses us all and the American people,” he said.
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