Harris To Oversee Electoral Certification On Monday
The Washington Post reports:
On Monday, in her constitutional role as president of the Senate, Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress that oversees the counting and certification of the electoral college votes affirming that Trump — despite the alarms she sounded during her 107-day sprint to the November election — will again assume the powers and trappings of the presidency.
The task, by statute, always falls to the vice president on Jan. 6 following a presidential election, and this will not be the first time the role may be excruciating.
Four other vice presidents who sought the nation’s highest office — including Al Gore and Richard M. Nixon — have had to stand in the House chamber, in front of hundreds of lawmakers, and formalize their own
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