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Jan 7, 2021 Demonstrators break TV equipment outside the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP
A supporters of President Donald Trump, who wished not to be identified, openly carries weapons while protesting the election, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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U.S. senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, speaking at the Texas Capitol in 2019. Cruz led the GOP effort to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden s win, and continued that protest after a mob of pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
A scholar of politics tells Texas Standard how political theater has consequences, and that the electoral college is “on the chopping block.”
Early Thursday morning, members of the U.S. House and Senate certified the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. It was an expected outcome despite the chaos that came before it earlier Wednesday, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. Four people died, and multiple police officers were injured.