The decision will give the next electoral count — scheduled for Jan. 6, 2025 — the same level of security accorded to presidential inaugurations and political conventions.
By Peter Hermann and Jacqueline Alemany, The Washington PostSupporters of President Donald Trump stand outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
The designation, which followed a request from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and a recommendation by the House select committee charged with investigating Jan. 6, is intended to unlock funds and law enforcement resources from across the federal government to protect members of Congress while they certify the election results - the very job lawmakers were doing when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol.
The people gaming out these potential scenarios acknowledge that they can’t possibly anticipate every possible threat to the peaceful transfer of power. The fact that Trump declined during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris to express a single regret about his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and has continued to stoke baseless claims of election fraud, makes the period after November’s election even harder to predict.
Off the Hill, a small working group within Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to identifying and fighting threats to American democracy, has been facilitating tabletop exercises to game out what might happen - and how they’d advise members who support a peaceful transition to respond.
And at the Capitol Police’s D Street headquarters, Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, who took over the force six months after the riot, is already thinking through security ahead of next January and coordinating with the D.C. National Guard to figure out how to respond to any threat.
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