Some of the loser's party friends did not want to give up.
They contested the result of the presidential election - and because they were unsuccessful, they resorted to an outrageous means: they vowed to clog the streets of Washington in order to prevent the elected candidate from taking office.
Armed gangs organized;
the goal of this mob was to forcibly bring their favorite into the White House.
What sounds like a description of the situation in the US Congress on January 6, 2021, actually took place in late February and early March 1877. Previously, the Democrat Samuel J. Tilden was in the presidential election on November 7, 1876, his Republican opponent Rutherford B. Hayes defeated.