What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

Meanwhile, Capital Police are evacuating the Madison building and the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, according to ABC News. Both of those buildings have underground tunnels connecting them to the Capitol building.

After Trump’s speech, the plan was for the crowd to march from the Ellipse to the U.S. Capitol, which they did. But some members of the crowd didn’t stop at the barricades erected around the building, according to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, who tweeted videos of rallygoers breaking down the barricades and continuing to march to the building:

Pence just convened a joint session of Congress to certify the presidential election results, and Republicans in the House and Senate lodged formal challenges to the results in Arizona (this is one of three states that GOP senators and representatives are expected to object to, according to reporting from our colleagues at ABC News).

So, the way things will work is that after an objection is issued — as in Arizona — there are then two hours of debate and votes in the House and Senate on each challenge.

In other words, this could take a while, probably closer to three or four hours for each state where objections are lodged, given that the chambers have been staggering voting during the pandemic.