January 7, 2021, 7:27 AM)
Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., preside over a joint session of Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump, hours after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol and disrupted proceedings.
Congress certified President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ victory early on Thursday, the end of a long day and night marked by chaos and violence in Washington, in which extremists emboldened by President Trump sought to thwart the peaceful transfer of power that has been a hallmark of modern American history by staging a violent insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol.
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Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris hit 306 votes in the Electoral College, 36 more than needed to secure a White House victory. Trump received 232 votes. It comes after a projected win for Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
Democrat Jon Ossoff beat Republican David Perdue in one of the runoffs, NBC News projected, sealing his party s control of Congress and the White House. Democrat Raphael Warnock is projected to defeat GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the state s other runoff.
Markets have been largely unaffected by the chaos in Washington and on Wall Street Thursday, stocks rose to all-time highs as traders looked past the unrest.