WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s the presidential win will be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he defeated, Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to the Constitution, the Vice President is the head of the Senate and it is the role of the Senate President to declare the result of the election to the White House.

This is happening on January 6th.

Under normal circumstances, the vice president’s vote counting procedure is a mere formality and is the final step in the complicated technical process of electing a new administration.

For example, in 2000, after the grueling 36-day battle in Florida, Democrat Al Gore conceded the presidency on December 13 to Republican George W. Bush.

Gore was also vice president and certified Bush’s victory.

“The whole number of voters designated to vote for the president of the United States it’s 538,” Gore said from the podium, continuing to read his own loss to Congress. “George W. Bush from the state of Texas received 271 votes for President of the United States. Al Gore of Tennessee received 266 votes.”

But this almost didn’t happen four years ago.

Trump refused to accept defeat and sparked a violent insurrection at the Capitol when then-Vice President Mike Pence was to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Trump supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” as they ransacked Capitol offices.

Trump wanted Pence to ‘do the right thing’ and declare Trump the winner. Trump and his allies have spent days in a futile attempt to convince Pence that the vice president has the power to reject voters in battleground states who voted for him over Biden, even though the Constitution makes clear that the vice president’s role in the session the commune is largely ceremonial, just like a master of ceremonies.

Pence acknowledged this reality in a lengthy statement to Congress. He presented his conclusion that a vice president cannot claim “unilateral authority” to reject states’ electoral votes. He gave in the joint session of Congress on January 7, 2021 to certify for Biden.