As President of the Senate, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Republican President-elect Donald Trump in November, presided over Monday's joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes.
Nobody objected in the chamber as Harris announced Trump won 312 electoral votes compared to her 226 votes.
The ceremony lasted under 40 minutes.
This was a stark contrast to four years ago when Trump's repeated false claims of a stolen election emboldened the MAGA mob to raid the Capitol to overturn President Joe Biden's certification.
C-SPAN shared a graphic highlighting a time comparison from past elections, showing that it took the Joint Session of Congress 14 hours and 48 minutes to certify Biden in 2021.
Certification proceedings from former elections generally lasted under an hour.
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The internet humorously feigned ignorance about what happened that year in response to C-SPAN's post.
Others spelled it out.
Well done, C-SPAN.
Trump, who will be sworn into office for his second non-consecutive term in the White House on January 20, has vowed to pardon many of the 1,500 charged for their involvement in the January 6, 2021 attack.
Although U.S. Presidents have historically worked with the Justice Department's pardon attorney in exercising executive clemency, Trump's transition team has not disclosed how they would review hundreds of clemency requests of the charged defendants with crimes tied to the Capitol insurrection.
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