Congress formally confirmed the election of Joe Biden as president, a day after a mob invaded the Capitol in a chaotic effort to avoid having President Donald Trump confirmed as the loser in the race. CNBC's Eamon Javers reports. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi

Several Republican senators will no longer raise objections to Electoral College votes on Wednesday, after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building earlier in the day and disrupted a joint session of Congress that was moving to formally declare President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election.

Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., all indicated that Congress would move forward with the certification of Biden’s victory.

“We will not let today’s violence deter Congress from certifying the election,” Daines said. “We must restore confidence in our electoral process. We must, and we will, have a peaceful and orderly transition of power.”

On the floor of the Senate, Lankford said he recognized the commission he and several colleagues had asked for to review the election process would no longer happen. He added that Congress was heading toward Biden’s certification as president.

Loeffler, who NBC News projected Wednesday would lose her election bid to Democrat Raphael Warnock, said she had intended to object earlier Wednesday but that “the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider.”

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said in a statement Wednesday her plan to object was meant to to voice concerns over “changed election procedures without the will of the people.”

“What we have seen today is unlawful and unacceptable,” she said. “I have decided I will vote to uphold the Electoral College results and I encourage Donald Trump to condemn and put an end to this madness.”

Earlier in the day, the rioters interrupted the procedural meeting to count the electoral votes when they breached the Capitol building, sending lawmakers into hiding.

President Donald Trump has stoked his supporters with false claims that the election was stolen from him. Those claims were further fanned by more than a dozen GOP senators and dozens more Republican House members who had indicated they planned to object to certifying votes in key battleground states. Still, Biden’s victory was expected to be upheld.

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