Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day

WASHINGTON — As Congress convenes amid a winter storm to certify President-elect Donald Trump ‘s election, the legacy of Jan. 6 hangs over the proceedings with an extraordinary fact: The candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time, and is legitimately returning to power. “Whether we’re in a blizzard or not, we are going to be in that chamber making sure this is done,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, said Sunday on Fox News. Trump calls Jan. 6, 2021 a “day of love.” “We should not be lulled into complacency,” said Ian Bassin, executive director of the cross-ideological nonprofit Protect Democracy. Biden, speaking Sunday at events at the White House, called Jan. 6, 2021 “one of the toughest days in American history.” “We’ve got to get back to the basic, normal transfer of power,” Biden said. Republicans, who met with Trump behind closed doors at the White House before Jan. 6, 2021 to craft a complex plan to challenge his election defeat, have accepted his win this time.