CONGRESS CERTIFIES TRUMP ELECTION, DEMOCRATS ACCEPT RESULTS!
A
joint
session
of
Congress
officially
certified
President-elect
Donald
Trump's
election
win
on
Jan.
6,
and
for
the
first
time
since
1988,
no
Democrat
challenged
the
legitimacy
of
a
Republican
being
elected
president.
Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., presided over the session, where 312 electoral votes were certified in favor of Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance in a session that lasted about 30 minutes. The states being certified in alphabetical order, Texas's 40 electoral votes ultimately put Trump and Vance over the 270-vote threshold at 289.
The lack of Democrat-led drama in the certification of the election of a Republican president broke the party's decades-long tradition of denying the results of elections, as they had done in 2000, 2004, and 2016. The last time Democrats did not challenge the results of a GOP presidential victory was at the certification of George H.W. Bush's win in 1988.
Prior to the certification, Harris released a video saying, "Today, I will perform my constitutional duty as Vice President to certify the results of the 2024 election. This duty is a sacred obligation - one I will uphold guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and unwavering faith in the American people."