Name: Shaken U.S. Congress certifies Biden victory
Uploaded: 2021-01-07T18:40:27.000Z
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Biden Jr of the state of Delaware has received 300 just hours after hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump's stormed the U.

Congress has now certified Democrat Joe Biden's election victory, and the White House has released a statement in which Trump pledges an orderly transition when Biden is sworn in.

Although the statement also repeats the false claim that Trump won floor debate in Congress resumed stretching into the early hours on Thursday after police secured the building.

Both the House and Senate overwhelmingly rejected two objections to the vote tally for Arizona and Pennsylvania certified that Biden received 306 votes to Trump's 232.

Four people are now known to have died during the chaos, according to police, one from gunshot wounds and three from medical emergencies.

52 people were arrested at the time Thea Outcome of this vote tally was never in doubt, but those who stormed the capital did force their way through security barricades, shattered windows and scaled walls to fight their way in.

Some besieged the chamber holding the floor of the House of Representatives, while lawmakers were still inside forcing suspension of the debate.

Security officers barricaded the door with furniture before helping lawmakers escape.

Vice President Mike Pence, who had already angered Trump by resisting his calls to intervene in the vote, called it a dark day in U.

S history when he reconvened the session.

To those who wreaked havoc in our capital today, you did not win.

Freedom wins, and this is still the people's house.

Several Republicans who had previously supported Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud and were expected amount objections to the vote tally changed their minds by the time they had returned the chamber and also urged their fellow lawmakers to certify Biden's victory.

Republican Senator Kelly Leffler was one of them after losing her reelection campaign in Georgia less than 24 hours earlier.

That state has flipped the balance of power in Senate to the Democrats.

 Great violence, the lawlessness and siege of the halls of Congress are abhorrent and stand is a direct attack on the very institution my objected My objection was intended to protect Trump, who had refused to concede the Biden had urged his supporters on Wednesday morning to march in the capital and quote fight. 