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First thing’s first — Joe Biden will be certified as president sometime tonight or tomorrow.

In the interim, however, Trump loyalists will seek to overturn the results and authorities hope to stave off violence.

Here's how we expect things to go 👇 politico.com/news/2021/01/0…

⏰ Things will start up at 1 p.m.

That's when the House and the Senate will convene for a joint session to certify the electoral votes for Biden. The Senate will enter the House chamber, followed by VP Mike Pence and Secretary of Senate Mike Pompeo. politi.co/2JPM6Bv

⏰ At roughly 1:05 p.m., Pence will call the joint session to order and hand the certificate of Alabama to the first teller, who will read it and pass it over to the Clerk to the Parliamentarian. We'll continue going through the states alphabetically. politi.co/2JPM6Bv

⏰ 1:10 p.m. OBJECTION!

The election certification process is expected to have its first set of objectors challenge the electoral votes of Arizona around this time with Sen. Ted Cruz as the Senate objector
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If a House Republican objects and a senator has signed onto the objection in writing, then the Senate will withdraw from the joint session. If no senator has signed on, then the state count continues.

Both chambers will separately deliberate for 2 hours politi.co/2JPM6Bv

⏰ 3:30 p.m.: The time for the debate will expire and a vote will be had around this time.

Since Dems and many House Republicans are opposed to this—the efforts to challenge the election certification are expected to fail
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⏰ 4:30 p.m.: The next state, Arkansas, should be called around this time.

So one round of objections could take roughly three, even four hours. And the process will repeat for each objection. politi.co/2JPM6Bv

⏰ ...At some undesirable hour....

Pence will receive a tally of the count, which he will read and then announce the next president and vice president. politi.co/2JPM6Bv

P.S. We're tracking how each senator will vote 👇politi.co/3rSTayq