Mike Pence, who chairs the joint session in Congress, said “violence never wins.” Photo: Scott Applewhite / EFE
The Upper House rejected on Wednesday night the challenge of senators loyal to Donald Trump to the victory of Joe Biden in Arizona. The congressional process for counting the votes and confirming the victory of the president-elect has been resumed after the riots of Trump supporters in the capitol.
Only 6 senators (all Republicans) voted against the electoral result in Arizona . The remaining 93 rejected the challenge. Among the latter was Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, who lost Tuesday’s election against Republican Raphael Warnock and that he had previously assured that he would object to the results. Loeffler changed his mind the same day his defeat was known and that Trump supporters stormed the capitol in a violent way.
Those who voted against The results of the US elections – which had already been ratified by all the states – were Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ted Cruz of Texas, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas and John Kennedy of Louisiana . The House of Representatives was still debating this challenge to the election.
Vice President Mike Pence, who is chairing the session, said in rare remarks from his podium that “ violence never wins . Freedom wins. And this is still the people’s house ”(referring to the House of Representatives).
In a letter to his colleagues hours after the siege of the Capitol , the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi promised that the House would resume the session and said that “we have decided that we must proceed tonight on Capitol Hill once authorized for use. ”
Pelosi described the attack as“ a shameful assault to our democracy. He was anointed at the highest level of government. However, he cannot dissuade us from our responsibility to validate the election of Joe Biden “, in which he already Congress is focusing.