Harris to oversee confirmation of her defeat to Trump in presidential election: ‘Sacred commitment’
Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to do what only two vice presidents in recent history have done – preside over her defeat in the race for the White House.
Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress Monday afternoon to confirm lawmakers President-elect Trump vvictory over the current vice president in the November elections.
The vice president says her mission is to ensure a peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s holiday reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Harris, in a recorded video message released ahead of congressional confirmation of the 2024 Electoral College vote, said it was a “sacred commitment” she would support, “driven by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution and my unwavering faith in the American people.”
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And pointing to four years ago, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn congressional confirmation of Trump’s 2020 defeat by President Biden, Harris said “as we’ve seen, our democracy can be fragile.”
“It is up to each of us to stand up for our favorite principles,” the vice president emphasized.
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 repeated his unproven claims at a large rally on the National Mall near the White House that the 2020 election was riddled with massive electoral fraud and stolen from him. And Trump called on then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election results.
Harris, in her role as Senate President, becomes the first female vice president to oversee congressional confirmation of their election defeat since then-Vice President Al Gore did so in January 2001, following a white defeat by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the 2000 election, which was decided by the Supreme Court ruling.
Four decades earlier, then-Vice President Richard Nixon led the confirmation of his narrow 1960 election defeat against then-Sen. John F. Kennedy.
President Joe Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet) (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet)
In comments Sunday night, Biden joined Harris in noting that he is “determined to do everything in my power to respect a peaceful transfer of power.”
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And the president, pointing to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, told New Democrats in Congress that “now it’s your duty to tell the truth. You remember what happened, and I’m not going to let January 6 be rewritten or even erased.”
