Now that Congress has formally certified the results of the presidential election,

a path is officially paid for President-elect Trump to take office later this month.

For more, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both.

So, Tam, as you saw Lisa reporting earlier, we had the certification

of those 2024 election results passing without incident today. Four years later, a dramatically

different scene unfolded on Capitol Hill. When you look at recent polling from the economists,

though, it shows that less than half of all Americans, some 49%, say they believe that Mr. Trump bears some

or a lot of responsibility for that January 6th attack.

That includes, in terms of a partisan breakdown, 83% of Democrats, 17% of Republicans.

Do you feel like Mr. Trump and Republicans have sort of successfully recast that day and rewritten political history.

Yeah, and a lot of these questions, the answers that people give in polls is often just a reflection

of their views on Trump, no matter what the question is. I don't know if that's the case here,

but it certainly could be, because views of January 6th have begun closely tracking with views of Trump.

That is, he says it was a day of love.

He says it wasn't a big deal.

He also has said that he is going to pardon some share of the people who stormed the Capitol that day and have pled guilty or been

convicted of crimes. We don't, he, it isn't clear yet, whether it will be truly considered on a

case-by-case basis or whether these will be blanket pardons. But he and Republicans since the very beginning, since just within days, began rewriting history, began

describing it as a tourist visit.

And initially, that sounded absurd to almost everyone.

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