Vice President Kamala Harris She is set to do what two other vice presidents have done in modern history: oversee her defeat in the White House election.
On Monday afternoon, Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress where lawmakers will testify President-elect Trump VsBeating the incumbent vice president in the November election.
The Vice President says her mission is to ensure the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a Democratic National Committee reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Sunday, December 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magaña)
In a recorded video message released before Congress certified the 2024 Electoral College vote, Harris said it was a “sacred commitment” that she would uphold, “guided by patriotism, loyalty to our Constitution, and my unwavering faith in the American people.” “.
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Referring to what happened four years ago, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in a failed attempt to undermine Congress' certification of Trump's 2020 election loss to President Biden, Harris said: “As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile.”
“It is up to each one of us to defend our cherished principles,” the Vice President stressed.
A scene from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
the The Capitol building was attacked for hours After Trump, at a rally on the National Mall near the White House, repeated his unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was rife with massive voter fraud and stolen from him. Trump urged his then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election results.
As Senate president, Harris became the first vice president to oversee Congress' confirmation of their electoral loss since then-Vice President Al Gore did so in January 2001, following his narrow defeat to then-Gov. George W. Bush in the 2000 election, which was decided by a Supreme Court ruling.
Four decades earlier, then-Vice President Richard Nixon oversaw the certification of his narrow electoral loss in a 1960 showdown with then-Sen. john f. Kennedy.
President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sunday, January 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Bals Sinita) (AP Photo/Manuel Bals Sinita)
Biden, in comments Sunday night, joined Harris in emphasizing that he is “determined to do everything in my power to respect the peaceful transfer of power.”
Referring to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the president told the new Democrats in Congress: “Now it is your duty to tell the truth. You remember what happened, and I will not allow January 6 to be rewritten or erased.”
