LATE NEWS: A Joint Session of the U.S. Senate and House, presided over by Vice President Mike Pence, certified the electoral college victory of Democrat Joe Biden as the next President of the United States and Kamala Harris as the next Vice President, defeating incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence.
As the results were announced at 3:40 a.m., Thursday morning, Eastern Time, Pence remained stoic, having determined to do his constitutional duty of presiding over the Joint Session but not attempting to influence the deliberations as fellow Republicans objected to certification of the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania — causing the House and Senate to twice go into separate sessions, where those challenges were rejected.
Following is an earlier story:
Washington (AFP) – Congress was on track Thursday to certify Joe Biden as the next US president and deal a hammer blow to Donald Trump whose supporters stormed the Capitol hours earlier, triggering unprecedented chaos and violence in the seat of American democracy. Lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives successfully beat back Republican efforts to deny Biden the electoral votes from swing states Arizona and Pennsylvania, inching closer to overcoming what could be the final effort by Trump and his loyalists to overturn the results of the 2020 election. After a mob breached the US …
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