The 2024 election results have officially been certified, and it’s a moment that will go down in history. Donald Trump’s resounding victory has been sealed, marking his return to the White House. And if that wasn’t historic enough, watching Kamala Harris, his vanquished opponent and the current vice president, preside over the certification was an absolute masterpiece of poetic justice.
In her constitutional role as vice president, Harris had no choice but to certify Trump’s victory—thanks, in part, to the very law Democrats championed after the 2020 election to limit what they claimed was the VP’s discretionary power during the certification process. The irony is almost too rich. Watching her certify the results that propelled her political rival to a second term was better than I ever imagined.
Part of the reason is that some people felt she should be spared that trauma. After Trump’s victory, former Harris spokesperson Jamal Simmons floated the idea that Joe Biden should have resigned shortly after the election to not only allow her to become the first female president but to also relieve her of the responsibility of certifying his own defeat.
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“He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris the president of the United States,” Simmons suggested. “He would absolve her from… having to oversee the January 6 transition, right, of her own defeat.”
It was an insulting idea as if the presidency is some sort of consolation prize that should go to the loser even if temporarily.
In the end, she presided over the certification, and it was not an easy moment for her. I’d have felt bad for her, but I didn’t. She doesn’t deserve sympathy.
Last year, a Rasmussen Reports poll found that most Democrats didn’t want Congress to certify the election if Trump won. And some on the left insisted that Congress not only has the power to block Trump from taking office but should.
But no one raised objections, and the process proceeded without incident, save for the sideshow of watching Kamala clearly struggling to put on a smile and then choking up a bit as she read the final electoral vote counts.
Watch Kamala certify Donald Trump's victory for an unmatched feel-good moment. pic.twitter.com/h3ymttwLAk
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) January 6, 2025
The standing ovation from Republicans as the final tally of 312 electoral votes was announced said it all. Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson, ever the showman, couldn’t hide his enormous grin — an expression that perfectly contrasted with Harris’s forced, strained smile.
Did I enjoy watching that too much? I suppose some might think so. But it’s hard not to take some pleasure in this outcome after years of smears and endless lies about Jan. 6, 2021, and the Democrats’ relentless efforts to block Trump from running, let alone winning, it was more than satisfying to watch this scene unfold. The radical left failed at every turn to stop him. Every false narrative, every abuse of power — they all fell apart.
The certification was a moment for the ages, one that won’t just be remembered for the electoral outcome but for what it represented. Truth prevailed. And for those of us who’ve endured years of lies and manufactured scandals, this was justice served — on a silver platter.
Now I can't wait for the inauguration, which can't come soon enough.
