Kamala Harris certifies her own election defeat and Donald Trump’s sweeping victory

Vice President Kamala Harris smiled ruefully as she fulfilled her constitutional duty to certify the electoral votes of the 2024 presidential election.

It marked a humiliating finale to her own failed bid for the White House.

Harris took her place next to Republican Chairman Mike Johnson during a joint session of Congress with members of both the Senate and House of Representatives.

She was then forced to listen as the state-by-state election results were read out, exposing the extent of her own defeat to Donald Trump.

During the campaign, Harris had repeatedly called the president-elect a threat to democracy, a fascist, “petty tyrant” and an aspiring dictator.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a current senator from Ohio, sat expressionless in the front row, clapping softly — sometimes unenthusiastically — as the states he and Trump won were read aloud.

Methodically, after the votes from each of the states and U.S. territories were counted and certified, Harris declared Trump and Vance the victors.

“Donald J. Trump from the state of Florida received 312 votes,” Harris said in a steady, emotionless voice.

“This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate will be considered a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States,” she continued.

Her statement that Trump will become the 47th president was met with a roar of approval and a standing ovation from Republicans.

“Kamala Harris from the state of California received 226 votes,” she continued, this time the Democrats stood up to cheer her on.

On a quiet, snowy day, four years after the sacking of the Capitol by a mob of crazed activists on January 6, 2021, Trump, after spending some time in the political wilderness, was once again declared the winner of the presidential contest.

Harris left the Capitol after the joint session, telling reporters, “Today I did what I have done my entire career, which is to take seriously the oath I have taken many times to support and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” “I today fulfill my constitutional duties to ensure that the votes of the American people, the voters of America, are counted, that those votes matter and that they will subsequently determine the outcome of an election.”

Trump, meanwhile, handed out hats to those who volunteered to help his successful campaign.

“The President meets with his hardworking correspondence volunteers and signs hats,” Trump’s deputy communications director Margo Martin posted on X next to a photo of the newly elected president and his supporters.

The joint session had many colorful moments as lawmakers reconvened for the second day of the 119th Congress.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, hobbled into the chamber on a walker after suffering a broken hip after falling down a marble staircase during a trip to Europe just before Christmas.

Pelosi had managed to return from across the pond last week to vote in the House of Representatives’ controversial speaker vote. She had undergone hip replacement surgery abroad, but the walker with the usual tennis balls was a newly unveiled accessory.

Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was also injured in a fall last month, was seen wearing a blue medical face mask during the joint session.

Meanwhile, social media users criticized the VP for the horrific moment.

Huge standing ovation as Kamala Harris announces how badly she was beaten in the election,” said Jordan Conradson of Gateway Pundit. ‘How embarrassing.’

Another Congress…’

Harris’ chairmanship of the joint session adds her to a unique club of VPs who have had to shamefully declare victory for the man they were running against.

Under the Constitution, the vice president, as leader of the Senate, is charged with the process of declaring the results of the election in the White House.

Harris now follows in the footsteps of Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president, who had to admit defeat to Republican George W. Bush in 2001.

Richard Nixon, then vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, was similarly forced to sign the results of his loss to John F. Kennedy after the 1960 election.

The moment for Harris, however bittersweet, must have been a lot more boring than her experience during the last election declaration, when she was a senator from California.

Four years ago, as her predecessor, then-Vice President Mike Pence, and Congress prepared to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump, the infamous January 6 riot broke out.

Thousands stormed the Capitol grounds that day. Some fought with law enforcement, while others broke windows to enter the House floor and stop Biden’s election certification.

The plan worked for a while, but Pence and Congress returned hours after the riotous crowd drove out the politicians.

At around 3:30 am on January 7, Biden’s victory was confirmed.

This time the certification was much more mundane.

Earlier in the day, Harris confirmed that she would indeed certify the election results that were not in her favor.

“The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy,” Harris said in a video on her X account.

“Like any other principle, this is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy and tyranny,” she said.

The VP also alluded to the January 6 attack four years later.

“As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile,” she noted.

“And it will then be up to each of us to stand up for our most cherished principles and ensure that our government in America always remains of the people, by the people and for the people.”

Her statement appeared to be a final act of defiance against the new Republican before he is sworn in on January 20.