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Congress is gathering for a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, the final step before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, after some major changes to ...
Congress votes to certify results. A joint session of Congress will convene to formally ratify the results state by state on January 6 2025. That same date four years ago will live in infamy as ...
Vice President Richard Nixon, acting as presiding officer of the joint session for counting the electoral votes of the 1960 U.S. presidential election, suggested that congress follow a ruling allowing the certification of late-filed votes against him, of which congress did. [61] [62] In 1969, Hubert Humphrey recused himself from the count. [84]
After being certified at the state level, electoral votes can then be counted by Congress in a joint session set for Jan. 6, 2025, when the next president and vice president are officially ...
The original electoral system worked adequately for the first two presidential elections because on both occasions George Washington was the unanimous choice of the electors for president; the only real contest was the election for vice president for which an overall majority was not required. George Washington's decision not to seek a third ...
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 ...
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, exactly four years after he stirred up a mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, on January 6–7, 2021, was held as the final step to confirm then President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election over incumbent President Donald Trump.