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© Thomson Reuters 2025.U.S. Congress certifies Trump election victory with Harris presiding
By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
46 Comments
TaiwanIsNotChina
Well done, Harris. Fulfilling a constitutional duty of numerous vice presidents before her.
bass4funk
Yes, congrats to her.
Tokyo Guy
See, Mr. President-elect? Not difficult when you know how it's done.
Underworld
What happened to all the Democratic insurrectionists that were supposed to happen if the Dems lost? I guess, as we predicted, only MAGA are sore losers.
bass4funk
Not sure what’s so funny, the Dems lost everything, regardless of how peaceful the transfer the power was, it’s over, the Presidency, the House and Senate. Now I’m laughing.
wallace
Boo Hoo.
No storming of the Capitol Building like in J6 2021.
Trump is the second conservative president this century. Although one election was won, it's not a forever story.
Yrral
He be a certified felon Friday
Yrral
We have lost our will to fight for Liberty, Equality and Justice for All,I do know what you stand for probably nothing worthwhile in your life
bass4funk
True, but the Dems need to rebuild their party, the things that killed them and they should learn from this massive defeat if they ever want to make inroads with the people.
They lost on:
-Culture
-Economy
-Border
These are the issues that destroyed the Democrats, now being the stubborn party that that they are, I doubt they will change which will keep them a fringe party, but if they strongly focus on these common sense issues they might have a chance in the future.
lincolnman
Utterly ridiculous...
They lost because people believed the lies...the lies that will haunt them over the next year or until Trump face plants like McConnell and is led away to the "home"...
Underworld
bass4funk
It's funny, MAGA didn't change at all from their landslide defeat in 2020 and yet they got elected.
Therefore, the Dems are just fine.
They lost on Trump bringing grocery prices down, something that Trump now says he can't do.
wallace
The Trump-Musk bromance won't last the course of time.
Ricky Kaminski13
So gracious of you guys. As always, standing over the little people with such moral clarity and piety.
Bye bye now.
Great Bird
A fringe party? The democrats?
lincolnman
Trump's inauguration speech;
"Well, we made it - I'm President of Mexico again. I want to thank all of my supporters, the "great unwashed", those "contemptable fools", and the "basement dwellers" who so easily believed my lies....thank you - losers"....
"Now I can collude with my tech bro billionaires to give them huge tax breaks and to welcome in all those foreign workers who can replace American ones...as my friend Vivek said, American workers are "mediocre"...
"Now on with Project 2025 - I said I knew nothing about it but that was just another one of my lies"...
"Down with democracy! Onward with the Kleptocracy!"
bass4funk
And that’s why the left lost.
I see, so you’re saying Blacks and Latinos are just not smart enough to think for themselves, they should have just continued to follow the Dems blindly, I mean it worked so well for over 70 years.
Well, people want a safe country, want low food prices, want safe streets, want secure borders, want police to be allowed to do their jobs..
Yes, out of power, no power, but I guess…
Trump said many things, we shall wait and see, he’s not even been inaugurated yet.
Yrral
He be a certified felon,you can see Trump groveling too the judge Friday,like the criminal he is
plasticmonkey
He's got about two weeks to end the war in Ukraine. As he promised.
lincolnman
You got suckered friend - the guy you thought would block all immigration, that would ban abortions, that wouldn't start any wars...he's tossed all of those promises out...
You and the rest of your MAGA buddies were tossed under the bus for the MIGA bros - Make Immigrants Great Again... Trump played you for a fool...
Yep, I'm saying you got conned...
GuruMick
How will Trump lower food prices, Bass ?
wallace
Trump will achieve less than 50% of what he sets out to achieve. Priority on translaws and locating and deporting the 20 million illegal immigrants and closing the border. He will raise the National Debt above the $40 trillion mark.
wallace
Will Trump try to introduce a federal abortion ban?
Blacklabel
Certification of the election by the loser under the law Democrats passed to restrict the VP from doing anything except reading out the vote total.
u_s__reamer
After two more years of Trump the Republicans will go the way of the Conservatives in the UK (off the cliff).
ok1517
The US we used to know is finished, over, finito, kaputt!
The next 4 years will destroy everything the US has been built upon.
Integrity, freedom, decency, empathy and so much more - gone with the wind.
My highest respect and envy goes to VP Harris for the way she (and the Democrats) handled this "event"!
No insurrection, no fights, just the way it has to be done, not like 4 years ago!
The most embarrassing I've seen so far is the husband from that Nebraska Senator Fisher.
How much lower can you go? And he is an educator?
Wouldn't have my child attend any of his lessons!
Yrral
Certified Felon
Blacklabel
she lost so bad in such a secure election there was nothing for anyone to dispute.
GuruMick
I think a "safer America " would require some sort of gun control.
Thoughts, Bass ?
bass4funk
Salvation from liberal tyranny
Rehashing the same daily questions again?
That the left lost badly
Trump didn’t even start, that’s like saying your full and you didn’t even get supper.
Bannon wasn’t elected President.
wallace
Now we will have conservative tyranny. I hope the people are ready.
Wasabi
Ok, I am still waiting for the beautiful wall that Mexico will pay, so....
bass4funk
Thankfully
What the Democrats messed up, you can bet on that.
Blacks and Latinos don’t think so.
Good
Why?
Yeah, the left need to be quiet when speaking about education, them being the ones that brought gender and identity politics into our public school system
Nor would I allow mine to any public school.
https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/public-school-enrollment-decline-why-students-are-leaving/122644/
lincolnman
To a criminal kleptocracy...just like Russia...
You're rehashing the same dodges again....ROFL...
Trump bailed on your core issue - he's OK with killing babies until the 15th week.
Are you?
You got hustled...
He's caving even before he's sworn in...
Thanks for dissing Bannon - perfect example of the MAGA civil war...
stormcrow
A peaceful certification! So different from the last time! What a surprise! I wonder why!
wallace
Why would you? They go to Japanese public schools.
ok1517
bass,
What the Democrats messed up, you can bet on that.
Where did they mess up? How about some facts?
Unemployment rate 6.4% − 2.3%
Employment to population ratio, age 25–54 76.4% + 4.4%
Real wages ($/Hour Production & Non-Supv; 2024 $) $30.01 + 0.04
Real GDP per capita (Chained 2017 Dollars) $63,224 + 4,448
And so on! All positive aspects, right!
Blacks and Latinos don’t think so.
They will change their mind once the deportations begin under the Donald Admin!
Why?
Refusing to stand next to VP Harris, refusing to shake her hand - but I guess that's what you would call good manners!
Texas A&M Aggie
Today, America became unburdened by what could have been.
JJE
Sweet music!
bass4funk
Public education for starters
And still 79% felt that the economy was slagging and when you don’t engage in spending it doesn’t really matter if the economy is doing well, if people don’t spend money, you don’t have taxes, no taxes, no revenue.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/652250/majority-americans-feel-worse-off-four-years-ago.aspx
So that was one more strike against the Democrats and this administration.
Not for the American born minorities. Nice try
Look at what she called him, look what she and the Dems tried to do to him over the last 9 years, not only should she not get a handshake, but….anyway, I digress. Add to that the out of control crime, the open borders, war on the police, it was more than obvious they were going to lose. Oh, and this prominent Democrat said this about his party going forward.
https://youtu.be/II0KrNdFjZQ?si=QEr1EB_BxPZwkjW0
Yrral
Felon in Chief
owzer
Thats not what Harris is known for. lol
GuruMick
The US is a trading nation needing access to other nations markets etc.
How will an isolationist Pres. keep that access open when he proposes tariffs on foreign imports ?
Wont other trading partners just do a tit for tat response ? Put tariffs on US goods ....price led fall in demand
Maybe revive the era of gun boat diplomacy from the early 20th Century to force nations to buy American.
Ah, populist economics....so many questions, so few answers.
Underworld
Burgerland
"They lost on Trump bringing grocery prices down, something that Trump now says he can't do."
Your US friends are wrong.
JJE
Another irony is the "party of choice" gave their constituents no choice but to vote for her.
They deserve everything that is happening to them. Poetic justice for the worst administration ever. Joe will be a trivia quiz question-answer decades from now - and a minor joke. She won't even be a footnote on history.