LIVE- Congress meets to certify Trump's

Trump’s win is certified: Congress has officially certified Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, with Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the counting of the Electoral College votes from each state.
Congress convened Monday to count the votes of the Electoral College and formally cement President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in November, presided over Monday's joint session of Congress in her role as president of the Senate and announced the results of the vote.
Trump won 312 electoral votes in November, compared to Harris' 226. There were no objections in the chamber as each state's results were read aloud.
The ceremony lasted less than 40 minutes, and the relatively perfunctory nature of the proceeding stood in stark contrast to four years ago, when a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to violently disrupt the process after his loss in 2020.
More than 1,500 people have been charged with their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, and Trump has vowed to pardon many of them when he is sworn in for a second term.
In 2022, Congress passed a law clarifying how states certify their electors and the vice president's role in counting electoral votes on Jan. 6. The change was aimed at preventing the strategy that Trump and his allies employed to challenge the results of the 2020 election.
Heavy security, including fences and barriers around the Capitol, was in place for the joint session and Trump's inauguration later this month.