Congress certifies '24 election | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : "Trump said online Monday that Congress was certifying a "GREAT" election victory and called it "A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY.
48% : Instead of ascending to the White House as the country's first female president, she oversaw the constitutional machinery that will return Trump to power.
47% : Biden, in one of his outgoing acts, awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who had been the chair and vice chair of the congressional committee that conducted an investigation into Jan. 6, 2021.
42% : Republicans who challenged the 2020 election results now express greater trust in U.S. elections after Trump defeated Harris.
37% : "Leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
35% : "Today, America's democracy stood," Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, said after presiding over the session -- as is the role of her office -- and her own defeat to Trump.
28% : Trump denies that he lost four years ago, muses about staying beyond the Constitution's two-term White House limit and promises to pardon some of the more than 1,250 people who have pleaded guilty or were convicted of crimes for the Capitol riot.
28% : At the time, GOP leader Mitch McConnell blamed Trump for the siege but said his culpability was for the courts to decide.
23% : "Trump was impeached by the House on the charge of inciting an insurrection that day but was acquitted by the Senate.
20% : During the campaign, she frequently invoked the Jan. 6 riot to warn voters of the danger of returning Trump to the White House.
19% : Trump has said those who worked on the Jan. 6 committee should be locked up.
13% : Federal prosecutors subsequently issued a four-count indictment of Trump for working to overturn the election, but special counsel Jack Smith withdrew the case in November after Trump won reelection, adhering to Justice Department guidelines that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

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