{"id":299849,"date":"2021-01-07T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299849"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:22:20","slug":"congress-certifies-biden-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299849","title":{"rendered":"Congress certifies Biden victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Staff Reporter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">THE Congress of the United States of America has just affirmed President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s Electoral College victory over President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The process put Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris over the 270-threshold needed to win the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Senate and House rejected objections to throw out Georgia and Pennsylvania&#8217;s electoral votes for Biden. Republicans also objected to Arizona, Nevada and Michigan&#8217;s electoral votes, but the motions failed before they reached debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The certification comes after rioters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The joint session of Congress, which is normally a ceremonial step, was halted for several hours when rioters managed to enter the Capitol building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The certification finalises the 2020 US Electoral process, and ensures that Biden and Harris will be inaugurated on the 20th of January 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sources:\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fccn.com%2F&amp;h=AT2E7MWxalU3IISbhqsgDdD5u2OT9Snu63WrEP1VCnHGQyLXL4stk-NyRY7bVUmQAYmcWTY70ugTexu0Ya19JU_2PRM8mdub3L1l1ZPgD4cG7l8LvvgapxcPVpyuYxHN8-kcukV1AIf6uIBOftnJ13dxtfvfv8qf7tWbCniTmdOYOa0pJmo8NKFmOuYp9xfPy9b0iptmnmZMKTOm2TBkMzNjSykllM5cc2uxoYW0Sxwcp95vUL0o-_G5KYwtfHDuwc-vQi7qrzMYqOf2v69vFyihwcVxnynhcGbvaab3GE6K9HM-vap5Rfar6bZQRh9WDVmv6vyrNEsd_DB3LxPvmFLmggpNqcSjnno3zP5JzJE6QwVecyzTXt3afVZwQGN-HeX3OJ0jGKds1DWJFUyTGiE1MuIL_33Z09ycbKk2zK7JsPJM12qHPiF_WAcI7qhJXtviE7jrWSb6fwRzNdafpoqCFIZ_HNRSy9-qB1vjevFdRixGyf_htYd9Jv9rpdug2-QwXxNZOnqLYI6-6RENzk9WL7wkU0d9ksEZaedAI1xt-1l7CFUfj7Imrx9V-XSBcluly7-PzTYUAGs8-f1UiUuXATlff5J1MOb_dkZ7g_XkMiUXEM0cIe4XjTKsTK-5Tr18_90wn7uAM-biyXOd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ccn.com.<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">aljazeera.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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