TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The 2024 Presidential Election outcomes have been formally licensed by members of Congress. Whereas the session sometimes occurs with out fanfare, there was further safety in place this time.
In 2021, supporters of Donald Trump flooded the Capitol because the certification was taking place.
5 individuals died and greater than 14 hundred individuals have been arrested as these protests grew to become violent.
Leaders from each the Democratic and Republican events have been reflecting on these occasions.
A protracted historical past of a bipartisan clean transition of energy modified after the 2020 presidential election. On Jan. 6, 2021, an assault on the nation’s capital divided the nation with one aspect believing the election was stolen and the opposite questioning how a ceremonial day turned violent.
4 years later, the transition of energy has performed out easily – to this point. So how did we get right here?
“It is necessary to face as the best democracy on the planet, and ensure that peaceable switch of energy occurs,” stated U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa.
Whereas each events agree, Jan. 6, this yr, is far completely different from the Capitol riot in 2021, they disagree on how we ended up at this level.
Castor stated it is as a result of Democrats honor the result of the election and in addition pointed to a bipartisan regulation from 2022, that goals to enhance the presidential transition.
“Democrats and Republicans got here collectively to vary the regulation, to make it clear {that a} vice chairman doesn’t have the flexibility to halt the certification,” Castor stated. “The regulation additionally modifications {that a} single member can not put ahead an objection. It’s a must to have a gaggle of members to discourage. I feel if that had been in impact 4 years in the past, the certification might need gone alongside quicker.”
Nevertheless, Republican Celebration Chairman Evan Energy stated the explanation behind a peaceable transition this time round, is a results of election integrity.
“I feel if you look again at it, there was a number of anomalies in that election,” Energy stated. “So many extra individuals voted than they voted on this election, and other people have been very fired up about this election. So, I feel what you had this time was we targeted on election integrity, the votes have been casts, they have been counted pretty, and also you see a landslide for Donald Trump and JD Vance.”
Whether or not or not it’s from stronger election safety measures or from laws revising the method of the transition of energy, Congress licensed Donald Trump as the following president of the USA.
