With Vice President Kamala Harris officially presiding, the United States Congress certified the results of the 2024 general election this afternoon, the last step before President-elect Trump is sworn in later this month.
The final electoral college count was 312 electoral college votes for Trump while Harris received 226 votes.
Today’s ceremony was a stark contrast to the events which occurred four years ago today when the same process ended with supporters of then President Trump storming the Capitol in protest of the election results.
Harris, who as Vice President, serves as president of the Senate, released a recorded a video message that was released prior to the certification, telling viewers, “The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy. As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny.”
In a Truth Social ahead of the certification, Trump wrote “CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAGA!”
After announcing the final results, Harris smiled while Republicans applauded.
“The chair declares this joint session dissolved,” Harris said following the roughly 30-minute process. “Thank you.”
The current administration certified him not for free today, but for a very big price.
The current administration today put into law that no offshore drilling for oil & gas, so we should continue buying oil from terrorists (Iran) and to make sure that energy prices remain high and the economy remains bad under the Trump administration. The Trump administration will have some job to reverse that , but hopefully it will get reversed as people are now realizing the truth thus Trump is very popular now.
What’s so hard to reverse. It wasn’t a bill passed in congress. it was an executive order. Trump can make his own executive order, requiring every single state that has access to oil, to drill.
Wrong. We don’t buy anything from Iran, including oil.
I guess you never heard of 3rd party or middle man.