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Vice President Kamala Harris she is poised to do what only two other vice presidents in recent history have done: preside over his defeat in the White House race.
On Monday afternoon, Harris will oversee a joint session of Congress, when lawmakers will certify President-elect Donald Trump victory over the current vice president in the November elections.
The vice president said her mission is to ensure a peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another.
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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee’s holiday reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC on Sunday, December 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Harris, in a recorded video message released before Congress certified the 2024 Electoral College vote, said it is a “sacred obligation” that he will uphold, “guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution and my unwavering faith in the American people.”
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Pointing to four years ago, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to reverse Congressional certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Biden, Harris said that “as we’ve seen, our democracy may be fragile.”
“It is up to each one of us to defend our most cherished principles,” the vice president stressed.
A scene from the January 6 riots at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
The The Capitol was attacked for hours after Trump, at a large rally on the National Mall near the White House, repeated his unproven claims that the 2020 election was riddled with massive voter fraud and stolen from him. Trump urged then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election results, a request that Pence ignored.
Harris, in her role of presiding over the Senate, becomes the first vice president to oversee congressional confirmation of her election loss since then-Vice President Al Gore did so in January 2001, following his defeat as razor before the then governor of Texas. George W. Bush in the 2000 election, which was decided by a Supreme Court ruling.
Four decades earlier, then-Vice President Richard Nixon presided over the certification of his narrow electoral defeat in a 1960 showdown with then-Sen. John F. Kennedy.
President Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden, in comments Sunday night, joined Harris in emphasizing that he was “determined to do everything in my power to respect the peaceful transfer of power.”
The president, noting the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, told New Democrats in Congress that “now it’s your duty to tell the truth. Remember what happened and I will not let January 6 happen again writing doesn’t even get erased.”
