The United States Congress has affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump.
The counting
of Vermont’s three electoral votes put Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala
Harris over the 270-threshold needed to win the presidency.
The
certification comes after Pro-Trump rioters invaded the US Capitol on
Wednesday.
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.
“The
announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be
deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice
President of the United States, each for the term beginning on the 20th day of
January 2021 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the
journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives,” Vice President Mike
Pence said following the count of all the Electoral College votes.
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