washington – Donald Trump Presidential victory will be documented With the candidate he defeated in Congress in January, Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to the Constitution, the vice president is the president of the Senate, and it is the Senate president’s job to announce the outcome of the White House elections.

This happens on January 6th.

Normally, the vote counting by the vice president is a mere formality and the final step in the complex technical process of electing the new administration.

For example, in 2000, after a grueling 36-day recount battle in Florida, Democrat Al Gore handed over the presidency to Republican George W. Bush on December 13.

Gore was also vice president and certified Bush’s victory.

“The exact number of electors appointed to vote 538 for president of the United States,” Gore said from the podium and continued reading his own loss to Congress. “George W. Bush of Texas received 271 votes for president of the United States. Al Gore of Tennessee received 266 votes.”

But four years ago this almost didn’t happen.

Trump refused to concede defeat and sparked a violent insurrection at the Capitol as then-Vice President Mike Pence was about to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Trump’s supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” as they ransacked Capitol offices.

Trump wanted Pence to “do the right thing” and declare Trump the winner. Trump and his allies spent days trying in vain to convince Pence that the vice president had the authority to reject electors in battleground states that voted for Biden, even though the Constitution makes clear that the vice president’s role in the joint session is largely ceremonial. like a master of ceremonies.

Pence acknowledged this fact in a lengthy statement to Congress. He concluded that a vice president cannot claim “unilateral authority” to reject states’ electoral votes. He gavel to Biden’s confirmation at a joint session of Congress on January 7, 2021.