Trump loyalists object to certification of election result before joint session interrupted after protesters breach security
Members of the US Congress streamed to Washington on Wednesday afternoon to affirm officially Joe Biden’s victory in November’s election, amid a disruptive rearguard action planned by maverick Trump super-loyalists and protesters who stormed the Capitol, egged on by the president.
After four years of defending and emboldening Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress were facing their most consequential test of loyalty yet: to indulge the president’s brazen and meritless attempt to overturn the results of an election he definitively lost, or to uphold the democratic process and certify Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
