Congressional leaders reconvened on Wednesday night to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the November presidential election, defying pro-Trump rioters who attempted to scupper the process by storming the Capitol earlier in the day.
“The United States Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, after his colleagues, escorted by a heavy presence of law enforcement, returned to the upper chamber.
“They tried to disrupt our democracy; they failed,” he added.
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