Biden says ‘democracy did prevail’ six months after Capitol riot

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President Joe Biden concluded that “democracy did prevail” six months after the “disorder” of the Capitol Hill riot.

Biden, certified by Congress as the winner of the 2020 election on Jan. 6 after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the proceedings, said the riot “posed an existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive — a sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy.”

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