Congress—unanimously and without challenge—certifies the results of Trump’s 2024 landslide election victory
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday led the certification of the 2024 presidential election victory of her opponent, the once and future president, Donald Trump.
The whole process concluded swiftly and without unrest. One by one, a tally of the electoral votes from each state was read aloud to applause in the House.
In contrast to Joe Biden’s certification, there was no cloud of alleged election fraud hanging over the process—no one objected and the results were certified.
Congress holds a joint session every four years on Jan. 6 to certify the results of the presidential election. Each state submits its electors for Congress to count the votes.
One senator and one member of the House of Representatives can together object to the counting of a state’s slate of electors in writing.
If such an objection were to have occurred, a two-hour debate in the House and a two-hour debate in the Senate would have ensued, followed by a vote on whether or not Congress should count that state’s electors.
As president of the Senate, the vice president—in this case, Harris, the failed Democratic presidential nominee—declares the winner.
House Democrats on the select committee who accused then-President Trump of inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, didn’t try to block the certification of Trump’s 2024 victory.
The electoral certification of now-outgoing President Joe Biden’s win over Trump in the 2020 presidential race was delayed by the Jan. 6 protest, when a mob breached the Capitol.
A recent report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General showed that some two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Unlike the protesters, it was found that four of the FBI informants had illegally entered the building.