Earlier, Trump, speaking to thousands gathered at the Ellipse, urged his supporters to head to the Capitol afterward, and he even suggested that he would go with them.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back vigorously on lawmakers objecting to Joe Biden’s victory, characterizing it as an attempt to overturn the will of the voters.
“The election, actually, was not unusually close. The Electoral College margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016.” He warned that if the election were “overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.” The objections to Biden’s victory started quickly, when Rep. Paul Gosar and Sen. Ted Cruz objected to the electoral results in Arizona, and some of their Republican colleagues broke into applause. That triggered a process in which the Senate and the House will withdraw to their respective chambers, even though Trump’s allies do not have enough votes to block Biden’s 306-232 victory.
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