Kamala Harris swears in Senate members; JD Vance’s reaction goes viral – Times of India

Vice President Kamala Harris Friday swore in the senators as the 119th Congress convened. A video of Vice President-elect JD Vance laughing as Kamala Harris read out the oath went viral. Donald Trump Jr too shared the video with a smiling emoji. But JD Vance did not probably mean any insult to Kamala Harris as he clapped after the swearing was over. Harris too was seen with a pleasant smile on her face as she faced the Republicans after the bitterly fought election. Harris’s role as vice president includes duties performed as president of the Senate, including breaking ties and presiding over impeachment trials not involving a sitting president. It also includes swearing in new senators-elect so they can begin their terms.Many of the Republicans Kamala Harris swore in today could not pronounce her name, the Time Magazine headlined its article about the swearing-in today. “When Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the Capitol on Friday to swear-in the new class of Senators, many of the smiling politicians handing her their family Bibles will be the same ones who for months have been telling crowds that she was a threat to the American way of life. At campaign rallies, on social media, and in interviews, some spent months falsely claiming she wanted to ban Christmas from the calendar, bring dog meat to immigrants’ stoves, or rig the election by inviting undocumented immigrants to flood polling places and cast illegal ballots,” the report said. “It’s an inelegant reality that every Vice President faces in their role as the President of the Senate, one that is particularly raw for those like Harris, Al Gore, and Richard Nixon who lost their presidential bids but still had to return for a final few weeks of a grind at the Capitol. Former Senators all, they understood that the norms of the Upper Chamber could not be set aside to save their bruised ego, nor would these institutionalists ask to be spared. Standing there with folks who trashed them is just part of the gig. Or at least that’s what they have to tell themselves,” the Time Magazine report said.