Trump Transition
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The president-elect spent the weekend at his golf club and estate, continuing to push the debunked idea that his loss in the 2020 election could have been legally overturned.
Maggie Haberman
Reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday is expected to be at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club and home in Florida, nearly 1,000 miles away from the Capitol as a joint session of Congress certifies his Electoral College victory.
Some Democrats may raise challenges, but most lawmakers say privately that they expect the proceedings to go smoothly.
How much of the certification Mr. Trump chooses to watch on television remains to be seen. He spent part of Sunday at his golf club in West Palm Beach, and has been described as relatively cheerful since winning the election two months ago.
But Jan. 6 is expected to unfold much differently than it did four years ago, when a pro-Trump mob left a speech that the outgoing president was giving near the White House and marched to the Capitol. Many clashed with law enforcement officers, forcefully entered the building and disrupted the proceedings.
The violence was the culmination of Mr. Trump’s weeks of lies about widespread fraud affecting the election and his refusal to acknowledge Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the victor. Some in the crowd that day hunted for Speaker Nancy Pelosi while others threatened the sitting vice president, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
Mr. Trump has spent the last four years trying to rewrite the events of Jan. 6, 2021, calling it a day of “love.”
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