By COLLEEN LONG
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential win goes to be licensed in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Below the Structure, the vice chairman is the top of the Senate, and it’s the position of the Senate president to declare the results of a White Home election.
That occurs Jan. 6.
Below regular circumstances, the vote-tallying process carried out by the vice chairman is a mere formality and it’s the ultimate step within the sophisticated technical strategy of electing a brand new administration.
For instance, in 2000, after the grueling 36-day Florida recount battle, Democrat Al Gore conceded the presidency on Dec. 13 to Republican George W. Bush.
Gore, too, was the vice chairman, and he licensed Bush’s win.
“The entire variety of the electors appointed to vote for president of the US is 538,” Gore mentioned from the podium, occurring to learn off his personal loss to Congress. “George W. Bush of the state of Texas has acquired for president of the US 271 votes. Al Gore of the state of Tennessee has acquired 266 votes.”
However this practically didn’t occur 4 years in the past.
Trump refused to simply accept defeat and sparked a violent rebel on the Capitol, when then-Vice President Mike Pence was to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s win. Trump’s supporters chanted “Hold Mike Pence” as they ransacked Capitol places of work.
Trump had wished Pence to “do the correct factor” and declare Trump the winner. Trump and his allies spent days in a futile bid attempting to persuade Pence that the vice chairman had the facility to reject electors from battleground states that voted for Biden, regardless that the Structure makes clear the vice chairman’s position within the joint session is basically ceremonial, very like a grasp of ceremonies.
Pence acknowledged that actuality in a prolonged assertion to Congress. He laid out his conclusion {that a} vice chairman can’t declare “unilateral authority” to reject states’ electoral votes. He gaveled within the joint session of Congress on Jan. 7, 2021, to certify for Biden.
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