Posted on 01/04/2025 1:08:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — The congressional joint session to count electoral votes on Monday is expected to be much less eventful than the certification four years ago that was interrupted by a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump who tried to stop the count and overturn the results of an election he lost to Joe Biden.
This time, Trump is returning to office after winning the 2024 election that began with Biden as his party’s nominee and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the ticket. She will preside over the certification of her own loss, fulfilling the constitutional role in the same way that Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, did after the violence subsided on Jan. 6, 2021.
Usually a routine affair, the congressional joint session on Jan. 6 every four years is the final step in reaffirming a presidential election after the electoral college officially elects the winner in December. The meeting is required by the Constitution and includes several distinct steps.
A look at the joint session:
Under federal law, Congress must meet Jan. 6 to open sealed certificates from each state that contain a record of their electoral votes. The votes are brought into the chamber in special mahogany boxes that are used for the occasion.
Bipartisan representatives of both chambers read the results out loud and do an official count. The vice president, as president of the Senate, presides over the session and declares the winner.
The Constitution requires Congress to meet and count the electoral votes. If there is a tie, then the House decides the presidency, with each congressional delegation having one vote. That hasn’t happened since the 1800s, and won’t happen this time because Trump’s electoral win over Harris was decisive, 312-226.
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Violent mob. Someday, the LAT and the leftist may get their wish.
They forgot “goaded on by departing loser Trump!”
Right. The “tellers” reading the Electoral College results will have to turn up the amplifiers to be heard over the mob of Dems and Antifa on the Capitol steps as they enter and trash the place.
Like other reruns it won’t have the same freshness as first run. And sequels usually get mostly forgotten. Like Caddyshack 2.
I expect the certification to happen on January 7 or January 8. This would be due to extreme winter weather, so I doubt there will be any violent mobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp3KcfCxopk
“certification four years ago that was interrupted by a peaceful mob, whipped into a frenzy by government agitators, posing as Trump supporters.”
I had to correct their false statement.
That’s completely ridiculous.
Trump’s electoral win over Harris was decisive, 312-226....
I cacn’t believe the la times used the word “decisive”
It was, but shocked said it.
talk about lies and fraudulent journalism!!!!...
Doughnuts cost much more than a dollar these days; I haven't eaten one in the better part of a decade, though that didn't help my weight any.
Nullification attempts would look stupid, and they know this. A "terrorist" assassination attempt is much more likely, which I pray God will continue to intervene for Trump's sake.
Trump should call for ANOTHER march on the capital. Rub their noses in it. Then he should hire a bunch of Koreans with num-chucks to stand on the capitol steps. Dress them up in their smocks. Dare the rogue leftists to pretend it’s an insurrection.
Think Andrew Jackson.
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I join you in this prayer!!!!
<>Under federal law, Congress must meet Jan. 6 to open sealed certificates from each state that contain a record of their electoral votes.<>
This is when, under the Framers’ system, the republic found out the results of the Presidential election.
“Violent mob. Someday, the LAT and the leftist may get their wish.”
Release every tape from Jan 6 and then sue the LA Times for journalistic malpractice and ethics violations.
The press was pretty quiet about the Electoral College meet up in December.
We’ll see how non-violent protesters are.
The oath of office never seemed so far away. I’m like a 7 year old on December 4th waiting for Christmas but the stakes are life-and-death...not whether or not I get a new G.I. Joe.
I think Klamu will come down with Batflu or some other ailment so as to not look bad.
If it wasn’t such a wipeout and close they would have been prostituting themselves to faithless electors.
So would a new pandemic attempt, but here we are being told to wear masks for bird flu.
I think discretion is the better part of valor. https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=DCZ001&warncounty=DCC001&firewxzone=DCZ001&local_place1=Washington%20DC&product1=Winter+Storm+Warning&lat=38.9087&lon=-77.0189
NWS says most roads in DC will be somewhere between hazardous and impassable.
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