SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO/AP) — The peaceful certification Monday of November's presidential election in the United States stands in stark contrast with the violence of 2021 when then-President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington. Four years to the day later, KELOLAND News is looking back at what South Dakota's congressional delegation and governor said that year about the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Gov. Kristi Noem, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds and Rep. Dusty Johnson, all Republicans, still hold the same offices in January 2024 which they held in January 2021. Nold named superintendent of Sioux Falls Schools "Luckily we are safe, but it has been a difficult day," Johnson said on Jan. 6, 2021. "The images we are seeing are jarring. The capitol police are doing their best. But they have been overrun by people who crave violence, and too many people have for too long been sowing these seeds of anger and division and this is what you get. I mean, this is the tragic harvest and it needs to stop." "We're not going to let a bunch of thugs stop our democracy from doing the things that the people sent us here to do," Thune said on Jan. 6, 2021. More than 1,000 people have pleaded guilty to crimes associated with the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. 220 have been convicted at trial. "It was a pretty angry, unruly mob," Thune said on Jan. 6, 2021. "I mean, as I was leaving, there were people yelling profanities, and they had broken in. They had broken all the perimeters into the Capitol." On Twitter that day, Thune called the events at the Capitol "inexcusable and disgusting." Then-President Donald Trump, who four years later is soon to return to the Oval Office, had encouraged supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 to go to the Capitol. "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators," Trump said. Native South Dakotan is US Secretary of Senate Sen. Mike Rounds said later that month that he wasn't happy with Trump's messaging. "I was disappointed in the remarks which he made," Rounds said in January 2021. "I don't think that he helped to quell the emotion of the time." And Noem, who is set to join the second Trump Administration as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sharply criticized the events of Jan. 6, 2021 later that month. "What happened in January 6th was horrible and should never happen again in this country," Noem said in January 2021.