Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over the certification of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election. The event, scheduled for January 6th, is expected to be a far less contentious affair than the 2021 certification following the January 6th Capitol riot.
On Monday, Harris will preside over the certification of her own loss, fulfilling the constitutional role in the same way that Trump ’s vice president, Mike Pence, did after the violence subsided on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Constitution requires Congress to meet and count the electoral votes. If there is a tie, then the House decides the presidency, with each congressional delegation having one vote. That hasn’t happened since the 1800s, and won't happen this time because Trump’s electoral win over Harris was decisive, 312-226.Congress tightened the rules for the certification after the violence of 2021 and Trump’s attempts to usurp the process.
Harris and Pence were not the first vice presidents to be put in the uncomfortable position of presiding over their own defeats. In 2001, Vice President Al Gore presided over the counting of the 2000 presidential election that he narrowly lost to Republican George W. Bush. Gore had to gavel several Democrats’ objections out of order.
The appointed “tellers” from the House and Senate, members of both parties, then read each certificate out loud and record and count the votes. At the end, the presiding officer announces who has won the majority votes for both president and vice president.After a teller reads the certificate from any state, a lawmaker can stand up and object to that state’s vote on any grounds. But the presiding officer will not hear the objection unless it is in writing and signed by one-fifth of each chamber.
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