“January 6 found order and civility”welcomes The Hill.
On Monday, in just under an hour, Congress “certified President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, quickly and smoothly, unlike four years earlier, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and temporarily disrupted the confirmation of President Biden's victory”tells him Wall Street Journal.
“Unlike 2021, where the debates were spread over two days, no objections were raised,” continues the conservative daily. “No angry crowds gathered and no MPs were evacuated”.
But despite the “calm” who reigned in Congress, “there were reminders” of the explosion of violence of January 6, 2021, notes the New York Times. “The Capitol was completely locked down, tall black metal fencing had been erected around the building, and federal, state and local security reinforcements had been deployed.”.
And for the first time, “the day had been designated by the Department of Homeland Security as a 'special national security event'”.
Democracy “resisted”
Kamala Harris, in her capacity as Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, “was responsible for chairing the session which certified the victory of his rival, a snake that Al Gore had already had to swallow against George Bush in 2001”observe The Country.
Without losing her smile – certainly less broad than during her electoral campaign – Ms. Harris carried out her task with calm and confidence, announcing soberly: “Donald J. Trump of the State of Florida received 312 votes”. She tried to immediately follow up with her own result, “Kamala D. Harris… ”but was interrupted by the applause of Republican parliamentarians for their champion.
After two hammer blows as a call to order, she resumed her statement, “Kamala D. Harris of the State of California received 226 votes”before being applauded in turn by Democratic parliamentarians.
Speaking to the press after the debates, still from the Capitol, the vice-president “considered that she had fulfilled her constitutional duty by presiding over the session on Monday, as she had done 'throughout his career'and declared that the country's democracy had 'resisted'”reports Public.
“There were no Democrats found to contest the results”confirms Time. “Does this mean that the United States has conquered its demons from the attack on the Capitol, an assault that undermined the peaceful transfer of power, one of the pillars of democracy? ”.
“Nothing is less certain”asserts the Swiss daily. “Because the instigator of this riot, even if Donald Trump denies it, far from having paid the political price for this disaster, was on the contrary re-elected”.
“Don’t forget” January 6, 2021
In a column published Monday in the Washington PostUS President Joe Biden urged his compatriots to “don’t forget” the events of January 6, 2021. “We must remember the wisdom of the adage that any nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it”he writes. “We cannot accept a repeat of what happened four years ago”.
A duty to remember is all the more pressing since Americans, and particularly Democrats and independents, seem to be losing interest in the subject, worries the Washington Post in another article. Based on several recent polls, the capital's daily notes that Americans, between hazy memories and revisionist speeches from Donald Trump, seem to have adopted “a blah attitude towards such a significant political moment”.
“In other words, as with many things related to Trump, the opposition has lost much of its fight and has decided that other things are more important”writes the daily. “And the passage of time has once again proven itself to be one of Trump’s greatest allies”.
