House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to grin as Vice President Kamala Harris certified her election defeat in a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on Monday. A video of the moment has gone viral on social media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is set to preside over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump four years after he tried to stop the very process that will now return him to the White House. In a video message, Harris described her role as a “sacred obligation” to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.

The joint session to certify the 2024 election went off without interruptions as Vice President Kamala Harris made her defeat at the hands of Donald Trump official

With her hands clasped before her, the departing vice president had noted that “the peaceful transfer of power” is one of the most fundamental principles of democracy.

Congress has certified Donald Trump as the 2024 presidential election winner without challenge. It's in stark contrast to 2021 violence.

In one of her final acts as the 49th vice president, Kamala Harris oversaw the ceremonial certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory — and her soul-crushing loss — in the 2024 election.

There was no drama on Monday as Kamala Harris oversaw the ceremonial certification of her defeat to Donald Trump.

The US Congress on Monday certified President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the November 2024 election, peacefully wrapping up a ritual his supporters had tried to prevent in 2021 in the misleading belief that he had been cheated of a win.

Outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris declares that the whole number of electors appointed to vote for vice president of the United States is 538 within that whole number a majority is 270 the votes for vice president of the United States were that JD Vance received 312 votes while Tim Walz received 226 votes,