By Costas Pitas
(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take workplace on Jan. 20 after defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election.
Here’s a timeline of occasions between now and Inauguration Day:
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Jan. 6: Harris presides over the Electoral School vote depend at a joint session of Congress, proclaims the outcomes and declares who has been elected.
Forward of the depend on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Trump lambasted his vp, Mike Pence, for refusing to attempt to forestall Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
On that day, Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to cease the depend. Biden’s win was licensed early the subsequent day.
Congress has since handed reforms that require approval of one-fifth of the Home and Senate to contemplate a problem to a state’s outcomes – a a lot greater bar than existed earlier than, when a minimum of one member every within the Senate and the Home of Representatives may collectively set off a problem.
Jan. 20: Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will take their respective oaths of workplace throughout a swearing-in ceremony that is because of start at 12 p.m. ET (1700 GMT).
