CT delegation reflects on Jan. 6 riot as Congress certifies Trump win

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "Make no mistake, this Jan. 6 and Jan. 20 are going to be flowers and puppy dogs because Donald Trump won," he said.
58% : "While he offered a grim warning, Himes said he feels confident the final steps of the transition from President Joe Biden to Trump will go smoothly.
47% : "It's not a coincidence that I ended up spending six months of my life working with James Lankford on immigration reform and he was one of the few that switched his vote after he saw what happened," Murphy said.
35% : Himes vented frustrations about political leaders sowing discord to push an agenda, and pointed to rhetoric from Trump and some Republicans about a false report that a migrant was responsible for the recent New Orleans terror attack.
26% : "If you'd asked me that morning to describe where we were when we certified [Barack] Obama and Trump, I couldn't have told you.
24% : Since November, Murphy has been vocal about where he believes Democrats went wrong in their election losses to Trump and other Republicans.
22% : Despite this, the men and women who represent Connecticut in the House and Senate still carry a lingering sense of disbelief about the violence that unfolded after then-President Trump urged his vice president to block the results of the 2020 election.
22% : Murphy negotiated a bipartisan border bill with Lankford, but it was ultimately blocked when it reached the Senate amid objections from Trump.
12% : "We should be really, really freaked out that Donald Trump, having not condemned that violence but celebrated that violence, got reelected," he said.
11% : Harris will preside over the joint session as the head of the U.S. Senate and certify her own loss to Trump.

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