The results of the 2024 election and President-elect Donald Trump’s victory will be certified by Congress on Monday afternoon.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the presidential election to Trump in November, will preside over this year’s vote. She vowed to uphold the “sacred obligation” and fulfill her duties as the sitting vice president.
“The U.S. Capitol Police has enlisted help from at least 18 other law enforcement agencies, including the New York and Baltimore Police Departments, to secure the Capitol grounds for today’s certification. The winter weather has rendered the Capitol eerily quiet, without the usual buzz of staff and reporters running around. Instead, bundled-up police officers are standing guard in the snow over vacant streets while inside the Capitol, the halls are nearly empty,” the New York Times reported.
Just before the certification, Trump took to his Truth Social to post an interesting picture from Jan. 6, 2020.
President Trump just posted this 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/GizePN3mWN
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) January 6, 2025
Harris released a video on Monday morning talking about the “importance” of a peaceful transition of power as Trump prepares to take the White House on Jan. 20.
“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. Today, at the United States Capitol, I will perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United State to certify the results of the 2024 election,” Harris said.
“This duty is a sacred obligation, one I will uphold guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and my unwavering faith in the American people. As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile and it is up to then each one of us to stand up for our most cherished principles and to make sure that in America, our government always remains of the people, by the people, and for the people. May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America,” she added.
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Trump, who is spending the day at his Mar-a-Lago estate in south Florida, posted on Truth Social ahead of Monday’s certification proceedings: “Congress certifies our great election victory today — a big moment in history.”
For her part, Harris is not planning to “go quietly into the night” after she was thumped in the 2024 presidential election.
During a segment on CNN, reporter Isaac Dovere revealed that Harris privately tells backers she is considering running for governor of California in 2026 or president in 2028. Harris also reportedly does not want her “final act” to be certifying Trump’s election victory over her.
Dovere said that Harris is mulling two options.
“What she’s been saying to people over the last couple of weeks, donors, other supporters that she’s been talking with, As you haven’t seen the last of me, I’m not going quietly into the night. Advisers, people close to her are debating about what that means. They do not want her final official act ever to be essentially certifying Donald Trump’s win over her, especially four years after January 6th. And so they look at this governor’s race in California in 2026, and it seems to them like a layup essentially, that she would probably clear the field or mostly clear the field and she would get to be governor of California,” Dovere said.
“But if she does that, that means that she couldn’t turn around and run for president again in 2028. She’d need to essentially declare right away. And that is what it really comes down to because there are people close to her who say she didn’t get a fair shot this year,” Dovere added.
Dovere continued, “It wasn’t it wasn’t up to what she could have done. And look how well she performed anyway. She should get to go again in 2020. And then there are ones who say, look, with where things are with the Democratic Party at it, she would not have a clear field or a cleared field, rather, in the Democratic primary and could lose the nomination. And to come off of 2024 into that would be really terrible.”
Harris allegedly told associates she was “staying in the fight” and considering a 2028 presidential campaign or a California gubernatorial run in 2026, prompting Democratic strategist Theryn Bond to urge Harris not to run for president again.
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