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Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley tweeted that his staff carried electoral ballots from the floor of the Senate to avoid them being burned as a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol building.
“If our capable floor staff hadn’t grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob,” he tweeted.
Rioters broke through the police barricades and into the Senate chamber itself after President Trump spoke at a “Save America” rally where he said he would “never concede” and urged his supporters to march to the Capitol in protest.
Washington DC’s police chief said that the pro-Trump rioters deployed “chemical irritants” to gain access to the building.