Congress has officially sealed Democrat candidate Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 Presidential Election following the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol building yesterday.
Per CNN, after Vermont's three electoral votes were counted, Democrat candidate Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, managed to overcome the 270-threshold needed to win the presidency.
The Senate and House rejected objections to throw out Georgia and Pennsylvania's electoral votes for Biden, while Republican motions to object to electoral votes in Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan failed before reaching the debate.
Commenting on the vote, incumbent Vice President Mike Pence stated:
"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."
At least four people have reportedly died and several others have been injured after the joint session was halted for several hours when protestors breached the Capitol. The ceremony resumed at 8pm after riot police successfully cleared the building.
In a statement made to his 22 million followers on Twitter, Joe Biden condemned the violence, stating:
"Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted not to pursuit of power and personal interest at any cost, but to the common good."
