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

Vice President Kamala Harris fulfilled her law work of certifying the electoral votes from the 2024 statesmanlike election, a unsocial and humiliating finale to her truncated White House bid. 

Taking her spot astatine the halfway of the House level adjacent to Republican Speaker Mike Johnson during a associated league of Congress featuring some the Senate and the House of Representatives, Harris was forced to perceive state-by-state to the results from the 2024 election. 

The infinitesimal had to person been humiliating for Harris, who repeatedly called the president-elect a menace to democracy, a fascist, 'petty tyrant' and aspiring dictator.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a existent legislator from Ohio, sat successful the beforehand enactment looking connected without expression, clapping mildly - astatine times unenthusiastically - arsenic the states helium and Donald Trump won were work aloud.  

Methodically, aft the votes from each of the states and U.S. territories were counted and confirmed, Harris proclaimed Trump and Vance victorious. 

'Donald J. Trump of the authorities of Florida has received 312 votes,' Harris said.

'This announcement of the authorities of the ballot by the president of the legislature shall beryllium deemed a capable declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States,' she continued.  

Her pronouncement that Trump is to beryllium the 47th president to a country afloat chiefly of Republicans was met with load roars of support and a lasting ovation - a country unimaginable 4 years anterior aft galore GOP lawmakers successful the country denounced the president-elect. 

'Kamala Harris of the authorities of California received 226 votes,' she continued, this clip Democrats lasting and cheering her on. 

On a quiescent snowy time 4 years aft the ransacking of the Capitol by a assemblage of crazed activists connected January 6, 2021, Trump, after spending immoderate clip successful the governmental wilderness, was again was named a statesmanlike contention winner. 

The associated league featured galore colorful moments arsenic lawmakers reconvened for the 2nd time of the 119th Congress. 

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, hobbled into the enclosure utilizing a walker aft suffering a breached hep aft falling down immoderate marble stairs connected a travel to Europe conscionable earlier Christmas. 

Pelosi had managed to marque it backmost from crossed the pond past week to ballot successful the contentious House talker vote. She had undergone hep replacement country portion abroad, but the walker with its customary tennis balls was a recently unveiled accessory. 

Former Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, who was besides injured during a autumn past month, was seen wearing a caller look disguise successful the Capitol. 

A longtime rival of Trump's, McConnell appears to person skipped the associated session. 

Meanwhile, societal media users blasted the VP for the mortifying moment. 

Huge lasting ovation arsenic Kamala Harris announces however severely she got spanked successful the election,' said Jordan Conradson of Gateway Pundit. 'How embarrassing.' 

Another X idiosyncratic wrote: 'You whitethorn feel humiliated from clip to time, but you’ll ne'er consciousness arsenic humiliated arsenic Kamala Harris speechmaking disconnected the certification of Donald J. Trump for POTUS to a thunderous applause of her legislature peers…' 

Harris' presiding implicit the associated session adds her to a unsocial nine of VPs who person had to embarrassingly exclaim the triumph for the antheral they ran against. 

According to the Constitution, the vice president, arsenic the person of the Senate, is entrusted with the process of declaring the effect of a White House election. 

Harris present follows successful the footsteps of Al Gore, vice president to Bill Clinton, who had to certify his decision to Republican George W. Bush successful 2001 aft weeks of ineligible wrangling astir hanging chads and tiny margins successful Florida.

Before him, Richard Nixon (then vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower) had to motion disconnected connected the results of his nonaccomplishment to John F. Kennedy aft the 1960 election.

The infinitesimal for Harris, though surely bittersweet, indispensable person been a batch much boring than her acquisition during the past electoral certification, during which she was a Senator from California.  

Four years ago, arsenic then-VP Mike Pence and Congress readied to certify President Joe Biden's electoral triumph implicit Trump, the infamous January 6 riot broke out. 

As thousands stormed the Capitol grounds, immoderate fought with instrumentality enforcement portion others broke windows to participate the House level and halt Biden's predetermination certification. 

The program worked, for a time, but Pence and Congress returned aft the riotous mob drove the politicians out. 

At astir 3:30 americium connected January 7, Biden's triumph was confirmed. 

This clip astir the certification was overmuch much mundane.  

Earlier successful the time Harris confirmed that she would so certify the predetermination results that were not successful her favor.   

'The peaceful transportation of powerfulness is 1 of the astir cardinal principles of American democracy,' Harris said successful a video posted to her X account. 

'As overmuch arsenic immoderate different principle, it is what distinguishes our strategy of authorities from monarchy and tyranny,' she said. 

The VP besides alluded to the January 6th onslaught 4 years later.  

'As we person seen, our ideology tin beryllium fragile,' she noted. 

'And it is up to past each 1 of america to basal up for our astir cherished principles and to marque definite successful American our authorities ever remains of the people, by the radical and for the people.'