Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to do what solely two different vice presidents in latest historical past have executed – preside over her defeat in a White Home election.
Harris on Monday afternoon will preside over a joint session of Congress the place lawmakers will certify President-elect Trump’s victory over the present vice chairman in November’s election.
The vice chairman says her mission is to make sure a peaceable switch of energy from one administration to the following.
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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s Vacation Reception at Willard Lodge in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana) (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
Harris, in a recorded video message launched forward of congressional certification of the 2024 Electoral Faculty vote, stated it is a “sacred obligation” which she is going to uphold, “guided by love of nation, loyalty to our Structure and my unwavering religion within the American folks.”
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And pointing to 4 years in the past, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to upend congressional certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Biden, Harris stated “as now we have seen, our democracy could be fragile.”
“It’s as much as every of us to face up for our most cherished rules,” the vice chairman emphasised.
A scene from the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. (AP Photograph/Julio Cortez, File)
The Capitol was attacked hours after Trump, at a big rally on the Nationwide Mall close to the White Home, repeated his unproven claims that the 2020 election was riddled with large voter fraud and stolen from him. And Trump urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the election outcomes.
Harris, in her position of presiding over the Senate, turns into the primary vice chairman to supervise the congressional affirmation of their electoral loss since then-Vice President Al Gore did it in January 2001, following his razor-thin defeat to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush within the 2000 election, which was determined by a Supreme Court docket ruling.
4 a long time earlier, then-Vice President Richard Nixon presided over the certification of his slender election loss in a 1960 showdown with then-Sen. John F. Kennedy.
President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for brand new Democratic members of Congress within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden, in feedback Sunday night time, joined Harris in emphasizing that he was “decided to do all the things in my energy to respect the peaceable switch of energy.”
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And the president, pointing to the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, instructed new Democrats in Congress that “now it is your obligation to inform the reality. You keep in mind what occurred, and I will not let January sixth be rewritten and even erased.”
