3 years ago
A joint sitting of the US Congress has confirmed the victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in November last year. Biden will now be sworn in on January 20, after parliament certifies it.
Although Republicans challenged the electorate vote in Arizona and Pennsylvania in Parliament, two-thirds did not pass the joint sitting of the parliament was interrupted for some time by supporters of President Donald Trump forcibly entering the parliament building.
After the vote count, Vice President Mike Pence announced that Biden received 306 votes and Trump 232. 270 electoral votes are required to be elected President of the United States. Lawmakers from Nevada, Michigan, Winkinson, and Georgia challenged the electorate's vote on the lack of a senator's signature.
Earlier, Biden's Democratic candidate defeated Republicans in both Georgia Senate seats. With the victory, the Democratic Party will have a majority in the upper house, the Senate. Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeated Senators Kelly Loffler and David Prude.
For the first time since 2009, the Democratic Party will control the upper house of parliament, the lower house and the White House. Georgia's election is said to have garnered 4 million votes.
Although the victory in both victories is small, the victory of the Democratic Party in Republican-controlled Georgia is a bad blow for Trump. Warnock is the first black member to be elected from Georgia and the eleventh black member of the US Senate to date.
