FIVE OF Ohio’s 16 representatives objected to the Electoral College votes from Pennsylvania or Arizona, while West Virginia’s congressional delegation was divided on whether to certify the electoral votes from some states.

Proceedings in Washington, D.C., ended early Thursday after pro-Trump protesters marched on the Capitol on Wednesday, breached its doors and violently disrupted sessions of the House and Senate. Senators and congressmen reconvened later that evening and confirmed the Electoral College results and Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over incumbent Republican Donald Trump.

U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown of Ohio declined to support the two objections to certify election results from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were legitimately elected and are our next president and vice president,” the Democrat Manchin said in a statement Thursday morning. “It is time to come together and begin to move forward as one nation.”

Four people died during the violent demonstration.

Portman, a Republican, asked legislators to consider what would happen if the tables were turned.

“Would you want a Congress controlled by the Democrats to play the role you now intend for us?” Portman said. “It is asking Congress to substitute its judgment for the judgment of the voters, and its judgment for the judgment of the states that certified the results. And even forgetting the dangerous precedent that would be set, what would be the basis for objecting in this election?”

The Democrat Brown said Wednesday was “a dark day for our country.”

“Domestic terrorists attacked our seat of government, at the behest of the president of the United States. This was his last, desperate attempt to overturn the will of the American voters, but he failed, and democracy won,” Brown said. “We must hold the president accountable for inciting this attack on our country. The cabinet and vice president should immediately invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, to prevent him from doing more damage between now and Inauguration Day. And in 13 days, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office and begin the work to bring out the best in our nation rather than the worst, supported by a Democratic Senate.”

In the House of Representatives, Ohio Republican Reps. Warren Davidson, Bob Gibson, Bill Johnson and Jim Jordan voted to support both objections and Rep. Steve Chabot supported only the Pennsylvania objection.

“I rise in support of this objection and to give voice to the 249,386 men and women of Ohio’s 6th Congressional District, who’ve had their voices silenced by the rogue political actors in Pennsylvania, who unilaterally and unconstitutionally alter voting methods for benefit the Democratic candidate for president,” Johnson said. “Secretaries of state and state supreme courts cannot simply ignore the rules governing elections set forth in the Constitution. They cannot choose to usurp their state legislatures to achieve a partisan end, Constitution be damned.”

Wheeling resident Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., declined to support the two objections for Arizona and Pennsylvania. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., voted for both objections while Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., supported the objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes and voted against the Arizona objection.

McKinley criticized states for not following their election laws leading up to the November general election but said the Constitution does not give Congress the authority to throw out certified election results from the states.

“Any problems with the election in these states should have been addressed prior to certification. The proper venue for this dispute is in the state legislatures,” McKinley said in a statement. “If we believe in states’ rights, we must recognize the Constitution gives the states the power to submit their duly certified electors. We should respect the states’ authority, otherwise we might as well replace the Electoral College with Congress.”

Mooney disagreed with McKinley’s position, saying it was the responsibility of Congress to not accept election results from states that declined to follow their election laws.