The joint consultation to certify the 2024 elections took position interruptions, while vice president Kamala Harris made its defeat in the hands of Donald Trump’s official Trump

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Exactly 4 years after a multitude of supporters of Donald Trump perpetrated the worst attack against the American Capitol, since Major General Robert Ross ordered British infantry men to shoot him more than two centuries earlier, vice president Kamala Harris presided over A joint consultation of the Congress consultation to give Trump the non -violent movement of the force that refused to him after the 2020 elections.

Harris — who four years earlier was both vice president-elect and the sitting junior senator from California — led senators from their chamber across the Capitol’s ornate rotunda into the House chamber at exactly 1 p.m. Monday, the date laid out in American law for Congress to officially certify the election of the next president and vice president.

She smiled upon entering the room for polished applause on both sides of the hall. A radiant Taylor Greene Marjorie passed, a Franco followers of the fuss that assaulted the same play 4 years ago. JD Vance, chosen vice president, entered a place while he was later and took his position in the front row. Harris’s status throughout the Republican President of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, while the votes of the Electoral School were counted.

Unlike 4 years ago, when the president at the time, Mike Pence, read the effects and asked whether senators or representatives had objections to the state’s at-large electoral votes, this year’s joint consultation used a new procedure designed through lawmakers following Trump’s efforts to overturn the electoral effects 4 years ago.

Though Harris called the joint session to order, she played no role in the counting or reading of the Electoral College vote totals. Instead, selected tellers — members of the House and Senate chosen by leadership — read out the states and their vote results in alphabetical order.

While Pence had taken a moment to ask for objections and read another parliamentary language about the origin of the electoral certificates, Harris did not intervene because the effects of each state were called.

Trump’s vote total passed the requisite 270 needed for him to claim the presidency after the results from the state of Texas were read.

Once all states have been read, Harris asked the camera scrupters and the Senate to inform the result. Then he read the words that sealed his defeat, to the joint session: “The voices for the president of the United States are the following: Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida won 312 votes. Kamala D. Harris of the State of California won 226 votes.

Harris then read the result for the next vice president, telling the members of the Chamber and the Senate that Vance had won 312 votes while his formula partner, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, had won 226.

“This announcement of the state of the voting is entered through the president of the Senate. With the list of votes on the reviews of the Chamber and the Senate,” he said.

It was a process that took just half an hour — a far cry from the nearly 15 hours that elapsed from the time Pence gaveled in the joint session in 2021 to when he declared Biden and Harris the winners in the wee hours of January 7 after the riot by the then-president’s supporters forced lawmakers to shelter in place after fleeing the House and Senate chambers for their lives.

Unlike 4 years ago, no senator or representative opposed certification, and Harris can leave after completing their functions.

In a pre-recorded video message, she had stated that she would “train her constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the effects of the 2024 election” and called her role “a sacred obligation, one of the things of the country, loyalty to our constitution and my unwavering religion in the American people,”

“The nonviolent movement of force is one of the ultimate basic principles of American democracy. As much as any principle, this is what distinguishes our formula of government from monarchy or tyranny,” he said.

Harris echoes those comments later in the day in brief observations to the new insults after the end of the joint session.

She said it was “obviously a very vital day” and under pressure that certification without drama that had taken position “to be the norm” and it is “what other American people can take for granted.

“Today I did what I did all my career, which is seriously the oath that I have made several times and protects the letter from the United States, which included today’s exercise of my charter tasks to make sure that the US people , The electorate of America will have their counted votes, that those votes tell and that they will discover that the final results of an election, “he said.

Pence, Harris’s predecessor, posted a message to X (formerly Twitter) calling the “peaceful transfer of power” a “hallmark of our democracy” and praising representatives and senators for crtifying the election “without controversy or objection.”

“I appreciate the return of order and courtesy to these historical procedures and I welcome the most honest and prayers to President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance for his choice to lead this wonderful nation,” he said.

He also proposed to congratulate the members of the Chamber and the Senate -and to Harris -of those who said that “they fulfilled their duty the letter of the United States”, being the movements of Harris “particularly admirable” when presiding -as I had done it Pence- “The certification of the certification of a presidential election that lost. “

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