Blast from the past: January 7, 2021
Heading into Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to tally the Electoral College vote results, lawmakers anticipated a long day peppered with objections hinged on baseless allegations of election fraud. More than a dozen Republican senators had said they would object to at least one state’s election results.They began with a debate over a challenge to Arizona’s results. But after pro-Trump extremists brought violence and chaos to the Capitol, both chambers were forced into an emergency recess while the building was locked down.When lawmakers reconvened hours later, a number of Senate Republicans abandoned their plan to cast objections.