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 President-elect Donald Trump.
“The peaceful transfer of power is the hallmark of our democracy and today, members of both parties in the House and Senate and the Vice President certified the election of our new President and Vice President without controversy or objection,” Pence said in a statement Monday. post on X.
He congratulated Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on their victory and praised the “return of order and civility” to 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, Senate and Vice President who have fulfilled their duty under the Constitution of the United States, it is particularly admirable that Vice President Harris is presiding over the certification of an election presidential election which she lost,” Pence said. note.
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 that was temporarily interrupted due to the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
Pence, who ran and then dropped out of the 2023 GOP presidential primary, did not support Trump in 2024.
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Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership summit at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas October 28, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The last time a sitting vice president who lost a presidential bid presided over the certification of his own defeat in the presidential election was in 2001, after incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore lost to Republican George W. Bush during the race for the White House in 2000.
Pence congratulated House Speaker Mike Johnson last week after the congressman won the presidency again.
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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., holds the gavel after being re-elected Speaker of the House during the first session of the 119th Congress in the U.S. Capitol Chamber in Washington, DC, 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 said in a tweet.
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