Congress set to confirm Biden’s electoral win over Trump

A person walks a dog with the US Capitol in the background in Washington (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the US presidential election result is going before Congress as legislators convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.

The typically routine proceeding will be anything but, a political confrontation unseen since the aftermath of the Civil War as Mr Trump mounts a desperate effort stay in office.