Tomorrow, Congress will finish counting the electoral votes. I suspect that some, if not all, of the planned objections will not be made.
Tomorrow, Congress will finish counting the electoral votes. I suspect that some, if not all, of the planned objections will not be made.
These voters will continually fear what it means to elect a Republican, because should they lose in the subsequent election, there is now an established history of violence and death -- a woman has died in the Capitol today.
It appears the attempt failed.
Some staffer had the presence of mind to grab the actual electoral votes signed by each state and got them out of the House chamber before the rioters came in. So that important detail is not a problem.
Hopefully, that scares them straight and cools some heads. And not just Trump, but the entire political class who've been playing loose with divisive/identity politics for the last decade.
This is a media frenzy, nothing more, IMO.
As they have said in congress already, all that was achieved was the vote was delayed for a few hours.
Of course not, they were hoping the mere threat would get a sufficient number of Republican lawmakers to immediately and publicly side with rejecting the election results (or get Pence to recant and do so, refusing to open the dispute votes), so that the mob could switch to celebration rather than carrying out violence.
Twitter has finally had it with Trump. His last two tweets were removed for TOS violations.