“This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States each for a term beginning on the 20th day of January 2025 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the House and the Senate.”
With those words from Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Presidential election was officially certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2025.
Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar officially recorded Tennessee’s vote by declaring, “Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of Tennessee seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida received 11 votes for President and JD Vance of the state of Ohio received 11 votes for Vice President.”
