Congress is ready to certify Trump's election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : Trump calls Jan. 6, 2021, a "day of love.
49% : He and others have warned that it is historically unprecedented for U.S. voters to do what they did in November, reelecting Trump after he publicly refused to step aside last time.
47% : The day's return to a U.S. tradition that launches the peaceful transfer of presidential power comes with an asterisk as Trump prepares to take office in two weeks with a revived sense of authority.
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.
41% : The U.S. is struggling to cope with its political and cultural differences at a time when democracy worldwide is threatened.
39% : Republicans, who met with Trump behind closed doors at the White House before Jan. 6, 2021, to craft a complex plan to challenge his election defeat, have accepted his win this time.
37% : "Leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
33% : What Trump did last time, Biden said, "was a genuine threat to democracy.
28% : At the time, GOP leader Mitch McConnell blamed Trump for the siege but said his culpability was for the courts to decide.
28% : Smith last month withdrew the case after Trump won reelection, adhering to Justice Department guidelines that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.
27% : Federal prosecutors subsequently issued a four-count indictment of Trump for working to overturn the election, including for conspiracy to defraud the United States, but special counsel Jack Smith was forced to pare back the case once the Supreme Court ruled that a president has broad immunity for actions taken in office.
24% : Trump was impeached by the House on the charge of inciting an insurrection that day but was acquitted by the Senate.
19% : Trump has said those who worked on the Jan. 6 committee should be locked up.
10% : Republicans from the highest levels of power who challenged the 2020 election results when Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden have no qualms this year after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

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