by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning
Earlier this week, Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election was officially certified by lawmakers in a joint session of Congress.
Kamala Harris presided over the ceremony as president of the Senate and faced the awkward task as she formally certified Trump’s victory and her own loss.
Notably, the Democrats set aside some members’ views that Trump is ineligible to return to the presidency because of the Constitution’s bar on insurrectionist officeholders.
Apparently, the voice of the American people resonated in Democrat lawmaker’s ears because of Trump’s Electoral College landslide, his victory in all seven swing states, and the fact that he won a majority of the popular vote — the first Republican to do so in twenty years and only the second to do so in thirty-six years. That gives Trump both a mandate for change and the goodwill to try.