U.S. Resumes Debate About Biden’s Declared Victory After Deadly Violence
By Worthy News Breaking News Team George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos
(Worthy News) – The U.S. Senate resumed debating a Republican challenge against Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, hours after mobs claiming to be “pro-Trump” stormed the Capitol complex.
While opening the session that was due to certify Biden’s presumed win, Vice-President Mike Pence recalled the violence in which one woman was shot and later died of her injuries.
Democrats were quick to describe the mob as Trump supporters, but at least some law enforcement and other witnesses claimed radical leftist opponents of the president were among the attackers. “To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today, you did not win,” Pence warned.
“Violence never wins. Freedom wins, and this is still the People’s house. As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy for even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism,” he added. “The elected representatives of the people of the United States have assembled again.”
Pence wrapped up his address to a chorus of applause. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell agreed, saying the U.S. Congress faced “much greater threats than the unhinged crowd” today. “They tried to disrupt our democracy; they failed. They failed.”
However, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said, “we can now add January 6 to the very short list of dates in American history that will live forever in infamy”.
He also said he and fellow legislators of all sides mourn the loss of life, as one woman was killed in the violence.
But he was quick to blame President Trump for allegedly inciting the violence.
“This will be a stain on our country not so easily washed away. A final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States – undoubtedly our worst.”
Schumer stressed that these attackers cannot be called protesters. They are “domestic terrorists” who “do not represent America,” he said.
Schumer claimed that the “temple to democracy was desecrated.” He added: “The world saw Americans’ elected officials hurriedly ushered out because they were in harm’s way. The house and senate floors were places of shelter until the evacuation was ordered, leaving rioters to stalk these hallowed halls.”
Scores of Republican representatives and 13 Republican senators had planned to object Wednesday to the electoral votes of perhaps six states that backed Biden.
It was unclear whether those objections would continue in light of the day’s violent events.
President Donald Trump has insisted that the election was marred by fraud and that he actually won.
He reiterated those claims in remarks to thousands of protesters outside the White House early Wednesday and encouraged them to march to the Capitol, which many of them did.
However, Trump distanced himself from violence urging supporters to leave.
“I know your pain; I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side,” Trump said. He referred to numerous fraud reports, including alleged ballot stuffing, voting machine tampering, and corruption. Critics deny that these incidents dramatically altered the results declaring Biden the winner.
“But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order,” Trump told demonstrators angry about the alleged fraud.
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