The entire thing at the capital would have been 100% peaceful, and no one would have gone in the building, had the Capital Police not provoked the crowd by opening fire with non-lethal munitions on the crowd outside the west side entrance.
6 Jan was a fed op, deliberately provoked to give Pelosi a reason to suspend Elector ballot counting before Republicans could file a protest (there were several that were going to.) She could then re-convene under emergency session rules and disallow protests.
Disputed electors in Congress could result in those slates of electors being thrown out, thereby devolving selection of the electors to the state legislatures of the states in question, which Republicans controlled.
In short, without the riot, Trump wins despite the cheating.
The entire thing at the capital would have been 100% peaceful, and no one would have gone in the building, had the Capital Police not provoked the crowd by opening fire with non-lethal munitions on the crowd outside the west side entrance.
6 Jan was a fed op, deliberately provoked to give Pelosi a reason to suspend Elector ballot counting before Republicans could file a protest (there were several that were going to.) She could then re-convene under emergency session rules and disallow protests.
Disputed electors in Congress could result in those slates of electors being thrown out, thereby devolving selection of the electors to the state legislatures of the states in question, which Republicans controlled.
In short, without the riot, Trump wins despite the cheating.