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Congress has certified Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, a solemn end to one of the darkest days in modern US history.
But it was not the ratification of the president-elect’s 306-232 electoral college victory that Americans will remember in the coming years.
It will instead be the chaos, violence and ultimately bloodshed in the halls of the US Congress that will make 6 January 2021 a date that will live in infamy,” as Senator Chuck Schumer put it, echoing President Roosevelt’s response to Pearl Harbor.
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Directly encouraged by Trump himself, his supporters breached and occupied the US Capitol for more than four hours on Wednesday, interrupting the election certification proceedings and forcing lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence into an emergency evacuation and lockdown.