Former Vice President Mike Pence said it was “particularly admirable” that Vice President Kamala Harris oversaw the certification of the 2024 presidential election, which she lost to newly elected President Donald Trump.
“The peaceful transition of power is the hallmark of our democracy, and today, members of both parties in the House of Representatives and the Senate, along with the Vice President, approved the election of our new President and Vice President without controversy or objection,” Pence said in a speech on Monday. message on X.
He congratulated Trump and the newly elected vice president J.D. Vance about their victory, praising the “return of order and civility” in the certification process.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: Paul Morigi/Getty Images; Right: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I also commend the members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Vice President who have done their duty under the Constitution of the United States, and it is particularly admirable that Vice President Harris would preside over the approval of a presidential election that she had lost,” Pence said. noted.
After Trump and Pence lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, then-Vice President Pence presided over the certification during a 2021 joint session of Congress, which was temporarily adjourned due to the riot at the Capitol on January 6.
Pence, who dropped a Republican Party presidential primary bid in 2023, did not endorse Trump in 2024.
Former US Vice President Mike Pence arrives at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual Leadership Summit at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on October 28, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The last time an incumbent vice president who lost a presidential bid led the charge to certify their own presidential election loss was in 2001, after outgoing Democratic Vice President Al Gore lost to the Republican in the White House in 2000 George W Bush.
Pence congratulated the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson last week after the congressman won the speakership again.
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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., holds the gavel after being re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first session of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Friday, January 3, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“Well deserved! Our prayers are with you as you once again take up the gavel to lead the People’s House!” Pence stated in a tweet.
