David Smith: ‘Four years after mob violence, Kamala Harris hands power – peacefully – to Trump’
Like Vice-Presidents Gore and Mike Pence before her, Harris did her duty on Monday. America has returned to a peaceful transfer of power. Yet the unpalatable truth was that the candidate who tried to overturn the previous election is legitimately returning to power. Democracy had prevailed to elevate a man who spits in its face.
That she didn’t gag while certifying the results proves she’s made of tougher stuff than me.