Trump loyalists continue to challenge Biden s win, but some Republicans concede after Capitol riot
Karoun Demirjian, Seung Min Kim and Mike DeBonis, The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2021
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WASHINGTON - A handful of Senate Republicans who had vowed to protest President-elect Joe Biden s electoral college win abruptly reversed their objections after a mob of President Donald Trump s supporters violently stormed the Capitol - even as other rogue senators signaled they would continue to contest the election results after Wednesday s deadly siege.
Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who all endorsed objections to the tallying of electors in key disputed states, said they would stand down and support the affirmation of the election results. Loeffler, who lost her bid to retain her appointed seat Tuesday night, said she could no longer in good conscience do so after the hours-long melee that sent senators rushing to safety.
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(CNN) America faces 13 days of danger before the departure of an unhinged commander-in-chief who set his mob on the US Capitol in an act of insurrection that shattered a more than 220-year tradition of peaceful transfers of power.
Even President Donald Trump s own White House aides were horrified by his seditious behavior, which followed a fracture with his ultra-loyal Vice President Mike Pence who refused to join the futile but destructive effort to overturn the result of the election.
By the time police reinforcements flushed out the occupiers from under the Capitol dome Wednesday evening, Washington was reverberating after one high-level White House resignation and rumors of more to come, openly expressed anxiety from West Wing staffers about the President s volatile state of mind and even speculation of a snap impeachment or effort by the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to force Trump from office.
Biden s victory was expected to be certified by Congress, despite some Republicans saying they would object to the results from some of the battleground states where Democratic candidate Biden beat President Donald Trump on Nov. 3.
For years, those in charge of elections have said stoking false fears about voting would one day lead to violence. On Wednesday, they were proved right.