Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the 2024 electoral vote count, four years after the January 6th Capitol riot. The vote was largely ceremonial with no major protests planned.
The vote is taking place four years to the day after a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the 2021 Electoral College count. Trump has repeatedly said, who lost the presidential election to Trump in November, is presiding over this year's vote, while Vice President-elect JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, sits in the front row of the House chamber. Harris vowed to uphold the 'sacred obligation.' There are no major protests planned.
Four tellers, two from each chamber — Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. — are taking turns reading the results from states in alphabetical order. They're standing at the dais, on the step below Harris and Johnson, reading the number of electoral votes Harris and Trump each won in November.Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman serving 22 years in federal prison after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy, is asking President-elect Donald Trump for a presidential pardon, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Nayib Hassan, Tarrio’s lawyer, provided the attached letter to NBC News in which he called the 42-year-old Tarrio a “young man with an aspiring future ahead of him” who was “portrayed throughout the Government’s case as a right-wing extremist that promoted a neo-fascist militant organization” when, Hassan claims, he’s “nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values.” Hassan asks Trump for “a full and complete Presidential Pardon.”Vice President-elect JD Vance has a literal front row seat to his own election certification. He’s sitting in the front row next to Sen. Bill Cassidy.Harris walked in with VP-Elect JD Vance — who is here as the junior senator from Ohio. She told NBC News that “democracy must be upheld by the people.'Harris, as president of the Senate, has called the joint session of Congress to order and directed tellers to take their seats in front of he
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