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Utah Senator Mitt Romney said:

This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection.

And the NPR affiliate station in Washington D.C. announced that it would be using insurrection in its news coverage of the day's events:

This must be a first for NPR stations.

— Peter Overby (@peteroverby)

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