Harris to oversee electoral count, restoring norm that Trump shattered

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "But on Monday, in her constitutional role as president of the Senate, Harris will preside over a joint session of Congress that oversees the counting and certification of the electoral college votes affirming that Trump - despite the alarms she sounded during her 107-day sprint to the November election - will again assume the powers and trappings of the presidency.
55% : "This is, in a sense, a way to meet one of their campaign promises," said Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
39% : This time, Trump is welcoming the result and Democrats are showing no signs of claiming fraud.
36% : Harris promised in her concession speech to ease the new administration's transition to power, while Biden hosted Trump - whom he had called an "existential threat" - in a White House meeting that was so cordial it annoyed some of Biden's fellow Democrats.
33% : But since then, many in the GOP, led by Trump, have sought to reframe the riot as a heroic act by patriots concerned about democracy.
20% : "In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, leaders of both parties were quick to condemn it as an inexcusable assault on democracy, and many directly blamed Trump.
18% : That assertion led to threats on Pence's life from Trump supporters when he refused to do so.
14% : Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called Trump "morally responsible," and many participants have been convicted of such crimes as assaulting a police officer and entering a restricted federal building.
8% : Presidential historian Tim Naftali noted that from the first days after Harris's loss, she and Biden made it clear they would provide "the kind of transition for Donald Trump that Donald Trump refused to provide for them four years ago."

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