[Harris-Inauguration]-Vice President-elect Harris to resign her Senate seat Monday
Wellington, Dale. (AP) - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign from her Senate seat on Monday, two days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Aides to the California Democrat confirmed at the time that Gavin News was aware of his decision and that his fellow Democrat Alex Padilla, now California's secretary of state, was clearing the way for Harris' tenure for the last two years.
Padilla will be the first Latino senator in California, where about 0% of the population is Hispanic. News announced its election in December, following strong lobbying for a rare Senate seat in the country's most populous state.
Harris will not give a farewell Senate floor speech. In the first week before the opening day, the Senate is not scheduled to reconvene until Tuesday, when lawmakers gathered to confirm Biden's election victory after supporters of incumbent President Donald Trump shouted at the Capitol.
"There was an earthquake," Harris said in an interview broadcast Sunday. It was an inflection moment. You know, sometimes we think that an inflationary moment is about bringing something positive. No It was calculated in many ways. It was a demonstration of the risk of our democracy.
With the arrival of Padilla and his swearing in as vice president, he will be the chairman of the Senate at a time when the next Senate will have a majority in the Senate. But the party still needs sense. Georgia elected John Osaf and Rafael Warnock to prove their victory in the January 5 election and then take the oath.
Harris is the first woman elected vice president - and the first black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to serve in that office. But her Senate departure leaves the room roster without a black woman. Harris was only the second black woman senator to win the California election 17 years after Democrat Carol Moseley Brown completed a single term representing Illinois.
Of the many possible heirs to Harris, Newsom handed over at least two prominent black women, U.S. representatives Karen Bass and Barbara Lee. Bass was one of Biden's wife finalists.
When Harris spent four years on Capitol Hill, the Democrats were in the minority. Perhaps his biggest hallmark was a man who, as a member of the Senate Judicial Committee, questioned candidates and other witnesses.
Harris was considered a candidate for the presidency after entering the Senate in 2017. He announced his candidacy for the White House in January 2019, but withdrew after the election campaign in December and before the ballots were cast for the first time in Iowa. Councils of Nations. Biden, himself a former senator, invited him to join the national ticket in August.
The victory of Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia increased the Senate to 50-50, and Harris balanced the votes for Democratic rule. But Ossoff and Warnock will not be able to enter the chamber until Georgian Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirms the final vote. Rafensperger, a Republican, said he would act early on Tuesday to allow Padilla, Ossoff and Warnock to meet in the afternoon session and enter the Senate.
But Republicans will retain a majority of votes until all three take office and Harris takes the presidency.
Harris' early departure from the Senate has many precedents.
Biden was the last sitting senator to be elected vice president. He left Delaware on January 15, 2009, five days before his inauguration with Barack Obama. Obama, who was elected senator when he was elected, resigned from Illinois two months before Biden.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, enjoyed talking and arguing about how Emhof should be resolved when Harris took office.
In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Harris joked that some of Emhof's friends suggested he could be called the "first guy." Emhof added that "there are other thoughts that I can't repeat on national television."
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