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On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris warned American voters against it Donald Trumpcalling him “fascist,” and “petty tyrant,” and a threat to democracy – will have to certify his election victory in a few days.
Four years after rioters cheered for the hanging of the then vice president Mike Pence and tried to block the certification of election yes Trump Defeated, Harris is ready to fulfill her duty as Senate President by confirming her own electoral defeat and declaring Trump the winner of the 2024 election.
Federal law of the state that Congress must meet on January 6 at 1 p.m. to open the certificates of each state’s electoral votes. The President of the Senate, or Vice President, opens the certificates and presides over the session while bipartisan members of both chambers read the results aloud. After the official counting of votes, the President of the Senate declares the winner.
That’s every vice president’s job, but it may not be easy. On Monday, Harris will join Pence and Al Gore, who also had to certify election results for their rivals.
The upcoming certification stands out — namely because the 60-year-old Democrat must now certify the election of a man for whom she spent much of her 107-day bid warning of the “danger” he poses to democracy, the country and the world.
She warned that he was a threat reproductive freedom. She called him “unstable.” She predicted that as president he would “sit unstable, unsettled, he plans his revengeplotting his revenge, creating a list of enemies.”
“America: This is not a presidential candidate thinking about how to improve your life. This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, obsessed with grievances and seeking unchecked power,” Harris said in one of her final campaign speeches.
“Look, we know who Donald Trump is,” Harris said. “He is the person who stood in this place almost four years ago and sent an armed crowd to the United States Capitol to override the will of the people in a free and fair election — an election he knew he had lost.”
Harris will now have to confirm Trump’s victory despite her constant attacks on him as a threat to democracy.
It comes just four years after a violent mob stormed the Capitol in an attempt to block the confirmation of Joe Biden. Trump served as “central cause” disorder, a select committee of the House of Representatives investigating the disorder found.
In the nearly four years that followed, 1,561 people were criminally reported in connection with the attack. The newly elected president is left open the possibility of a pardon some of them; he called them “incredible patriots” and promised to help them “the first day we take office”.
A federal criminal case against Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been dismissed.
Ahead of this year’s certification, the Department of Homeland Security announced it will provide additional security marked The events of January 6th as a “Special National Security Event” for the first time in history.
“Special national security events are events of the highest national importance,” said Eric Ranaghan, special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dignity Protection Division. “The US Secret Service, in collaboration with our federal, state and local partners, is committed to developing and implementing a comprehensive and integrated security plan to ensure the safety and security of this event and its participants.”