Pro-Trump events related to the election outcome have taken place around the country beginning on November 4.
November 2020 November 4 • In
Phoenix, Arizona, pro-Trump protesters gathered to demand the city's remaining ballots be counted. Numerous other protests occurred that day in major cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and San Diego, some about the election and some about
racial inequality in the country. It was reported to have been adding a thousand new members every ten seconds. • In Atlanta, while poll workers inside
State Farm Arena counted ballots, pro-Trump protesters gathered outside chanting "Stop the cheat!"
November 6 • In Detroit, more than 200 protesters, some of whom were armed, rallied outside the tally room at
TCF Center as Biden and
Kamala Harris took the lead in the vote count for the state. • In
Youngstown, Ohio, about fifty pro-Trump protesters rallied outside the
WKBN TV news station. • Pro-Trump protests were held in
Arizona,
Pennsylvania, and
Michigan. In Arizona, far-right conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones called on protesters to "surround the
White House and support the President".
November 7 • In
Little Rock,
Arkansas, a group of about fifty Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, were met with a smaller group of counter-protesters at the
State Capitol building. • In North Las Vegas, a hundred Trump supporters demonstrated outside the
Clark County Election Department. • In
Lansing, more than five hundred Trump supporters protested the election results at the state
Capitol. • In
Raleigh, North Carolina,
Ryan Fournier led "Stop the Steal" rallies at Halifax Mall and
the North Carolina Executive Mansion. Counter-protesters debated Trump supporters and transformed "Stop the Steal" into a party at Halifax Mall. • In
Salem, Oregon, two separate protests were seen with participants questioning the results of the election. Four people were arrested during the protests.
November 8 • In
Phoenix, Arizona, hundreds of Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, protested Biden's victory, claiming that the Democratic Party had stolen the election. There were also small groups of counter-protesters. • In
Austintown, Ohio, hundreds of pro-Trump protesters rallied outside local businesses with the intention of marching towards the local
Walmart.
November 14 , November 14, 2020 • In Washington, D.C., thousands of protesters rallied to support President Trump's election claims. Some Republican members of
Congress also attended. Demonstrators gave various names to their action, including "Million MAGA March", "Stop the Steal" rally, and "March for Trump".The President waved to demonstrators as his
Secret Service motorcade passed
Freedom Plaza on
Pennsylvania Avenue during the morning before traveling to the
Trump National Golf Club northwest of Washington. The
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department arrested 20 people for various offenses including firearm violations, assault, assaulting a police officer, and disorderly conduct.After nightfall, tensions escalated between demonstrators and counter-protesters. Anti-Trump demonstrators stole and burned MAGA merchandise, tables belonging to vendors of Trump apparel were overturned, and fireworks were set off.
November 18 • Talk-show host
Alex Jones and political commentator
Nick Fuentes led a group of protesters in "Stop the Steal" protest in the
Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. He later called for fans to "go to the capital of Georgia now and you must surround the
governor's mansion now."
November 21 • In
Sacramento, two hundred protesters attended a protest in support of the President. The protest became violent once protesters marched to
Cesar Chavez Plaza, where the protest was declared an unlawful assembly due to fighting; one protestor was arrested.
November 22 • In
Charlotte, dozens of protesters organized the city's first election protest in the form of a vehicle convoy at
Marshall Park.
November 26 • In Chicago, 60 protesters held a rally in support of Trump at
Millennium Park. Participants included Edgar "Remy Del Toro" Gonzalez, president of the Chicago chapter of the
Proud Boys, and
Back the Blue supporters. A few dozen anti-Trump activists counter-protested.
December 2020 December 5 • In Michigan, the Michigan Secretary of State,
Jocelyn Benson tweeted that dozens of armed protesters gathered outside her home chanting "Stop the Steal" and held signs with the same message. Videos of the protest were later uploaded to social media and part of the protest was live streamed on Facebook.
December 12 • The
National Park Service granted a permit allowing a conservative organization,
Women for America First, to host a gathering in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on December 12, with a projected attendance of upwards of five thousand. On the day of the event, about 200 members of the
Proud Boys joined a march near the Plaza and the
Trump International Hotel while dressed in combat fatigues and ballistic vests and reportedly carrying helmets. Reported
antifa members were also present and both groups engaged in fights with one another later that night. In scuffles between protesters and counter-protesters, four people were stabbed and at least 23 were arrested.Trump acknowledged the Washington protest, tweeting "Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn't know about this, but I'll be seeing them!" and drove by in a motorcade.
Mike Flynn spoke to the crowds as well, stating "My charge to you is to go back to where you are from and make demands. The (
U.S. Constitution) is not about collective liberty it is about individual liberties, and they designed it that way." • Separate marches, called "Jericho marches" were pushed by church groups, and the "
Stop the Steal" organization linked to
Roger Stone, with marches planned in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. • In Indianapolis, demonstrators at the
Indiana Statehouse, including members of the
Proud Boys, protested both the election results and mandatory
mask rules.
January 2021 January 4 •
Proud Boys leader
Enrique Tarrio was arrested and charged with destroying a
Black Lives Matter sign at
Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. during the pro-Trump rally on December 12.
January 5 • On January 5, 2021,
Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser activated 340 of the
District of Columbia National Guard due to an organized protest of pro-Trump supporters planning to rally that evening.
January 6 – Washington D.C. building, January 6, 2021. On January 6, the protesters planned to march to the
United States Capitol. President
Donald Trump supported the planned protest via tweets. Mayor Bowser asked residents not participating in the protests to "avoid confrontations with anybody who's looking for a fight". A crowd of several thousand first listened to a speech by Trump, in which he repeated his claims that the election had been stolen and said, "We will never give up. We will never concede.... Our country has had enough. We're not going to take it anymore." He urged them to march on the Capitol to "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" but also to "show strength". Many listeners then marched on the Capitol, where they breached the barricades, broke windows, and stormed inside the Capitol building. They marched through Statuary Hall. Rioters invaded the offices of
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, flipping tables and ripping photos from walls; there was
looting in the Capitol. The Capitol was locked down, the Senate and House recessed from their discussions about the electoral count, and Vice President Pence was "whisked away" from the chamber. Members of Congress were told to put on
gas masks after law enforcement began using
tear gas within the building.
ABC News reported shooting in the Capitol building and an armed standoff at the front door of the House chambers.
The New York Times also said police drew their guns inside the House of Representatives chamber. Multiple officers were injured in the mob violence at the Capitol.
One died the following day, and another committed suicide over the following weekend. A woman was shot inside the Capitol by a Capitol Police officer while climbing through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby – she later died. At least one
improvised explosive device was found on Capitol grounds, and another just blocks away at the headquarters of the
Republican Party. members of Congress called for Trump's immediate
impeachment and removal by Congress, or by invoking the
Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. , the resolution was still waiting to be voted on.
January 6 – state capitols and cities on January 6, 2021 A number of states experienced demonstrations and armed protests at
state capitols or in the streets on January 6, numbering in dozens to hundreds of participants. Precautionary measures, such as closures of state capitols and evacuation of members and staff, were taken in several of the states in response to the events in Washington D.C. In some states the events were marked by incidents or particular security concerns. • In California, eleven people were arrested for illegal possession of pepper spray at a demonstration near the
state capitol in
Sacramento. There was at least one reported assault. Several roads were closed in downtown Sacramento and some bus lines were suspended, with more than two hundred police assigned to the demonstration. Some members of the crowd wore t-shirts supporting the far-right Proud Boys. There were also protests in the Los Angeles area, including at the
Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown; as well as in
Beverly Hills and in
Newport Beach. An incident was reported of a protester spraying a counter-protester with a chemical irritant. During the Los Angeles protests, a mob of thirty to forty Trump supporters physically assaulted a black woman who was walking down the street, shouting
racial slurs and chanting "
All Lives Matter" while shoving, striking, spraying with pepper spray, and ripping off her
hair extensions. • In Georgia, about sixty pro-Trump activists gathered outside the
state capitol in Atlanta, including armed militia movement members. A courthouse complex and two other government buildings were closed as a precaution. • In Kansas, at the
state capitol in Topeka, thousands of pro-Trump protesters held a rally on the Capitol lawn. The protesters erected a
gallows with a
noose in front of the state capitol, with the words "death to tyrants" etched into the wood of the gallows. Nearly one hundred of the protesters made their way into the state capitol and chanted "Trump 2020" and "USA" before being asked to leave by state police. No reported arrests were made. • In Oklahoma, at the
state capitol in Oklahoma City, one arrest was made on charges of attempted arson as well as assault and battery for attempting to light other people's flags on fire. The protest numbered in the hundreds and was otherwise peaceful. • In Oregon, arrests were made after hundreds gathered outside the
Oregon State Capitol in Salem. • In Washington, pro-Trump activists, some of whom were armed, broke through the gates at the
Washington Governor's Mansion at the
State Capitol Campus in Olympia, and occupied the front lawn, prompting a standoff with the
State Patrol. Pro-Trump events were held without incident in Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Nebraska, Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
January 9 • In
Frankfort, about one hundred heavily armed protesters assembled for a "patriot rally" outside the
Kentucky State Capitol while the
General Assembly was in session. "Three days after domestic terrorists attacked our U.S. Capitol, there was a militia rally in Frankfort. They brought
zip ties. We will not be intimidated,"
Governor Andy Beshear tweeted in response.
January 17 The
FBI reported that protests were being planned for all U.S. state capitols (and Washington) likely January 16–20, the 17th being symbolic to
QAnon and the 20th Inauguration Day. Substantial security preparations were undertaken to protect the United States Capitol, state capitols, and other locations from potential threats, and the protests occurred only in about a dozen states, featuring a small number of participants. • In
Lansing, protests at the
Michigan Capitol drew about 150 demonstrators and heavy
Michigan National Guard presence. Some protesters with
AR-15 rifles joined other demonstrators at the Capitol. Authorities said there had been no arrests or incidents of violence. In addition to National Guard, military vehicles were present near the Capitol building and a helicopter flew above the location for most of the day. • In
Austin, a crowd of about a hundred, many armed and focused on gun rights, gathered outside the
Texas Capitol. The
Texas Department of Public Safety closed the Capitol to the public on January 15 after obtaining information that "
violent extremists" were seeking to arrive at further protests over the weekend. • Smaller armed protests and demonstrations also took place at the state capitols of Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia.
February 2021 • On February 15, a rally was held by Trump supporters in
West Palm Beach, Florida for
Presidents' Day.
March 2021 • On March 5, in
Lafayette, California, pro-Trump demonstrations continued on the El Curtola overpass, prompting the city to request additional support from
California Highway Patrol and
California Department of Transportation. • On March 6, armed Trump supporters in New York City clashed with anti-Trump protesters near
Trump Tower. During the event, a police officer was attacked with bleach. At least four people were arrested afterwards. • On March 20, over 100 Trump supporters in
Raleigh, North Carolina gathered to protest North Carolina's COVID-19 restrictions.
April 2021 • On April 11, a
White Lives Matter protest was held in
Huntington Beach, California, with several Trump supporters turning violent when they clashed with counterprotesters. ==Anti-Trump protests==