Republican former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, will face one another within the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
Here’s a timeline of occasions associated to the election between now and Inauguration Day subsequent January.
– Oct. 1: Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic rival Tim Walz will participate in a debate hosted by CBS Information.
– Nov. 5: Election Day
– Later in November: It may take days for the election outcome to be identified, particularly whether it is shut and mail-in ballots are an element.
– Nov. 26: Trump, the primary sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted of a criminal offense, is because of be sentenced within the Manhattan hush cash case the place he was discovered responsible of falsifying paperwork to cowl up a cost to silence a porn star. Trump has denied wrongdoing and sentencing was initially as a consequence of happen on Sept. 18.
– Dec. 17: Electors, who collectively kind the Electoral School, meet of their respective states or the District of Columbia to pick out the president and vp.
– Dec. 25: The electoral votes should be obtained by the President of the Senate – a job held by the vp, at present Harris- and the archivist by this date.
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– Jan. 6: The vp presides over the Electoral School vote depend at a joint session of Congress, declares the outcomes and declares who has been elected.
Forward of the depend on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump lambasted his vp, Mike Pence, for refusing to attempt to forestall Congress from certifying Biden’s win. On that day, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters making an attempt to cease the depend. Biden’s win was licensed later that day.
Congress has since handed the Electoral Rely Reform and Presidential Transition Enchancment Act of 2022, which requires approval of one-fifth of the Home and Senate to contemplate a problem to a state’s outcomes – a a lot increased bar than existed earlier than, when any single lawmaker from every chamber may set off a problem.
– Jan. 20: The inauguration of the election winner and their vp takes place. At this ceremony, the victor and vp are formally sworn into workplace.
