US Congress certifies Donald Trump’s victory in 2024 presidential election

Donald Trump’s victory in the November presidential election has been cleared by the US Congress, easing a last-ditch barrier to his anticipated White House resumption later this month.

Monday’s ceremony in Congress officially validated the 2024 Electoral College results.

Overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s main rival in the election, the event passed&nbsp, quickly and with little fanfare.

“Today was obviously a very important day”, Harris, who also serves as the president of the Senate, said in remarks afterwards.

According to the article, “It was about what should be expected and what the American people should be able to accept for granted,” which is that a peaceful transfer of power is one of our democracy’s most crucial pillars.

The largely procedural issue marked a sharp contrast to the Electoral College votes certified by Congress’s previous session on January 6, 2021.

During that ceremony, thousands of Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in an effort to overturn then-President Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.

As a result of police officers’ assaults on protesters as they attempted to enter a chamber through a broken window, they were forced to leave.

Trump reiterated false accusations that the election had been stolen through massive fraud at a rally held nearby on the Ellipse, a park south of the White House.

The US Department of Justice has since charged 1, 583 participants with federal crimes after the attack was widely criticized as an assault on democracy.

As of Monday, approximately 1, 009 have pleaded guilty, with 327 offering guilty pleas to felony charges.

Trump himself faced two criminal indictments for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results: A federal case in Washington, DC, was recently dismissed, while a state-level case in Georgia is stalled but ongoing.

Nevertheless, four years later, Trump is set to return to power on the heels of his most successful presidential campaign to date.

In November, Trump won 312 Electoral College votes to Harris’s 226 and became the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote since 2004.

After gaining majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump’s Republican Party will also regain control of Congress.

Many in the party have since embraced the Republican leader’s false claims about the 2020 election.

“Congress confirms our historic victory today, a significant moment in history.” MAGA”! Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social on Monday, using an acronym for his slogan, “Make America Great Again”.

Harris, meanwhile, urged respect for the tenets of US democracy. She cited the peaceful certification from Monday as an example of what should go wrong.