Harris to oversee certification of her defeat to Trump in presidential election: ‘Sacred commitment’

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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to do what only two other vice presidents in recent history have done — preside over her defeat in a White House election.

On Monday afternoon, Harris will oversee a joint session of Congress where lawmakers will certify President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over the current vice president in the November election.

The vice president said her mission is to ensure a peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.

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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, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee’s holiday reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Harris said in a recorded video message released ahead of congressional certification of the 2024 Electoral College vote that it is a “sacred commitment” she will uphold, “guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution and my unwavering faith in the American people .”

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Referring to four years ago, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn congressional certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Biden, Harris said, “as we’ve seen, our democracy can be fragile.”

“It is up to each one of us to stand up for our most cherished principles,” the vice president emphasized.

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A scene from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

The Capitol was attacked hours after Trump, at a large rally on the National Mall near the White House, repeated his unsubstantiated 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 Pence ignored.

In his role as Senate President, Harris becomes the first vice president to oversee congressional confirmation of their election loss since then-Vice President Al Gore did so in January 2001, following his narrow defeat to then-Texas Gov. 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 election loss 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, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington.

President 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 Ceneta)

Biden, in comments Sunday night, joined Harris in stressing that he was “determined to do everything in my power to respect the peaceful transfer of power.”

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The president, pointing to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, told New Democrats in Congress that “now it is your duty to tell the truth. You remember what happened and I will not let January 6 be rewritten or not deleted at all.”