The joint session of Congress, led by Vice President Kamala Harris, certified the electoral votes from the 50 states, which was the penultimate item in the process of electing the president, which is Donald Trump.
As the names of the states were read and the vote totals were read, Harris performed the function of being the president of the Senate and overseeing the process, with House Speaker Mike Johnson next to her.
Alaska’s electoral votes were the second to be read after Alabama’s. Alaska’s three electoral votes went for Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, the senator from Ohio, who sat in the joint session with the other lawmakers as his own election to higher office was formalized.
In all, Trump won the presidency with 312 electoral votes to Harris’s 226 electoral votes.
Alaska Congressman Nick Begich III commented that he was “Honored to certify the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, our America First team!”
In a formal statement, NBIII said, “Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, America’s best days are ahead. We will fight for the future of Alaska every step of the way. We will bolster American energy, create boundless economic opportunities, and unlock Alaska’s natural resources. A stronger, safer, more resilient, and more prosperous America is around the corner, and I look forward to championing the America First priorities that will be ushered in as President Trump takes office,” Begich said.
Sen. Dan Sullivan was enthusiastic about the snowy weather and the certification of Trump in a post on X, as he went to the Capitol.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski issued no statement and it is not clear that she was even in the joint chamber. Several Democrats were missing from the session. Murkowski’s office issued a statement about the Social Security Fairness Act.
CBS News headlined the event: Congress certifies Donald Trump’s election win four years after he inspired a riot.
Daily Kos wrote: Congress certified Trump’s win—and Democrats didn’t riot or kill anyone
Monday was the first presidential certification of a Republican president that saw no Democrats mount a formal objection since 1988. In 2017, Democrats objected 11 times during the certification of Trump’s first win. In 2005, Democrats objected 31 times to President George W. Bush’s election certification.
In 2021, 147 Republican lawmakers opposed certifying Joe Biden’s win, and the process was not finished until Jan. 7, 2021, afte citizens converged on the Capitol to protest the certification of what appeared to be a flawed process in several states.
“Buckle-Up Buttercup,” it’s going to be a ruff ride here in the future. These lunatics: un-patriotic, un-American, un-hinged and narcissists will stop at nothing in the quest to overthrow the incoming POTUS and his Administration.
Good point Rob B. The fact the unhinged Democrats did not protest the 2024 election results (especially given Do-rag Raskin’s publicly announced comments) makes me wonder what they have up their sleeve. Perhaps they are counting on Judge Merchan to take care of it for them?
I want to believe with the lack of a perfunctory appearance, that the “Princess” has and is, reading the room as well,
tea leaves. Doesn’t she have a pretty nice abode in Florida?
Great to see Nick on the floor of the House of Representatives instead of ‘nice’ Mary. Nick will put Alaska first instead of democrat party interests.
Damn, I didnt know she was capable of making so much sense on such a complicated matter.
She didnt even repeat the fact she grew up in a middle class family.
Someone wrote out a very clear and concise note for Kamala which she could easily read, thank you. Now we can start trying to feel unburdened by what has been, in the context of today (I’ll sort of miss her in a strange way).
The Democrats acted as adults and honored the wishes of the American Public, no MAGA Tantrum and hiding from their own people.
First time for everything. How many elections have Democrats claimed were stolen before and after 2020, feel free to ask Hillary or Abraham’s and the long line of faithless electors who didn’t toe the party line over the years. If you think questioning elections is a one way street you haven’t been paying attention or you are brainwashed…hell, questioning elections is an American past time and has been since our founding. Regardless of what your chosen media lies to you about, we’ve always honored the official results whether they were the wishes of the American Public or not.
“…you haven’t been paying attention or you are brainwashed…”
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Agree totally. Thinking only one side of the political aisle is always the culprit is delusional.
At least Harris didn’t show up drunk, as she usually does.
She sucked it up, and did a job, like usual
……that’s what Willie Brown used to say too.
Lol….I wonder if she can now keep closer eye on her husband’s fantasies with babysitters?
Calendar of events:
Stop the steal, 6th January – cancelled
Sentencing of felon, 10th January
Pardoning of J6 picnickers and end of Ukraine-Russia war, 21st January
Huge difference between objecting/opposing a certification and rioting like a bunch of spoiled brats to try and stop certification. I understand most on here are not capable of telling the difference.
No, I can totally see the difference.
What happened on 1/6/21 was absolutely unacceptable.
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I cannot speak for anyone else, but when I say “Jan 6th was not an insurrection.” I mean just that. Nothing more, nothing less.
Leave it to the Dems to show the GOP how it’s done properly:
No dead policemen.
No thugs beating them up either.
No destruction of the Nation’s Capitol.
No defecating on the floor of the House.
No weird dude with horns sitting in the Speaker’s chair.
No refusing to face reality.
No being a sore loser.
No Proud Boy intimidation.
No violent attackers breaking the law and going to jail.
No subversion of our democratic system of government, leading to an unjustified loss off of faith in the voting system.
No just being a general a**hole about the whole damn election, and being unable to face uo to your own defeat.
See, this is how it’s done. It’s called THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER.
And if you can’t do that, then you can join the rest of Trump’s deportees and head across the nearest border. Pronto.
Excepting GropeyJoe and his Magic Executive Order Pen dropping turds everywhere on his way out,
Paragons of virtue I tell ya, now that they’ve spent four years pretending they’ve never questioned an election and that they’ve never supported a violent uprising. And you say it like you almost believe what you are saying…good boy.
I stand by my statement. Jan 6 and the antecedent Big Lie was unlike anything that has come before, and MAGA is culpable. You can’t whitewash that, sorry.
I’d be comfortable with an honest accounting of what actually occurred, unfortunately the leftists can’t allow that to happen and so we still have “news reports” that talk about a violent insurrection and all sorts of other demonstrably false talking points. The whole “Big Lie” is yet another of the failed talking points of the left. “Unlike anything that has come before” it’s hard to take you serious when you say things like that. Trump just won reelection in large part because of nonsense like what you’ve dutifully repeated.
Power was not transferred.
If you think this has anything more to do with the transfer than signing off on a document, you are clueless.
Yeah Whibdey, except for that Democrat system sanctioned and promoted BLM Summer of Love thing. You know, stay inside to protect grandma unless you are protesting against whitey.
Sure Dog. Carry on in your fantasy land.
Also, most of that violence from “the right” that you speak of… maybe familiarize yourself with the term “Agent Provocateurs”
There IS a Deep State that uses subversion tactics to upset a country and turn it against itself to create instability and in turn install preferred (compliant) regimes. Complaint to human trafficking and enslavement.
Our very own CIA has been doing it to the third world for decades, it is only now that apparatus has been revealed to have been pointed against the American people.
You are one of their useful idiots that imagines half the country to be “dOmEsTiC TeRrOrIsts”. In reality you have allowed yourself to become a deep state tool that is weaponized against your own people.
It is you who continues to come to these comments and sow division. Maybe try connecting with your fellow countrymen and work for positive change together.
It is possible you are doing this all on purpose and you know full well that you are a troll, in which case, you will suffer the consequences of your own actions.
Either way, when you are done helping destroy your own country, you will find no happiness and no peace, for it was you who was the monster all along.
Who is in the wings to replace murkowski when she quits?? Which will be shortly. A majority of people are just a little infuriated with her.
I’d guess it’ll be Nick!!
Its very interesting how we have come to the point where the applause in the chamber is strictly divided along party lines. The traditional level of mutual respect and civility for fellow Americans that I saw in that chamber in my lifetime has severely diminished.
We are to the point where the applause in the chamber is strictly divided along party lines. The traditional level of mutual respect and civility for fellow Americans has severely diminished.