By Cherranda Smith
Dec 15, 2020
Precious McKesson is the first Black woman to serve as a presidential elector in the state of Nebraska. She voted yesterday (December 14) to confirm the victory of President-elect
Joe Biden and Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris.
“It meant so much for many women who every day fight this good fight to make sure that our democracy is not taken for granted. And so to be able to cast that vote for Kamala Harris today, it meant the world to me,” McKesson told
CNN. “And I’m just so happy that I was able to do that, especially here in Nebraska.”
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Replay Video UP NEXT With his victory cemented by the electoral college, President-elect Joe Biden is heading to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for the two Democratic Senate candidates competing in runoff elections. The races will determine which party controls the Senate when Biden takes office. Even as more Republicans acknowledge there will be a new president in January, Trump is continuing to deny the outcome. Early Tuesday, he tweeted, “This Fake Election can no longer stand.” Here’s what to know:
Joe Biden the president-elect on Tuesday, after the Electoral College voted to certify his victory.
“The Electoral College has spoken,” the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor, before offering praise of Biden and Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris.
“I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden,” McConnell continued. “The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He’s devoted himself to public service for many years. I also want to congratulate the vice president-elect: our colleague from California, Senator Harris. Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time.”
The electoral college vote was blissfully bureaucratic and boring Robin Givhan A Pennsylvania elector fills out a ballot during the 59th Pennsylvania Electoral College meeting on Dec. 14. (Commonwealth Media Services/Reuters) The public servants spread throughout the country did what they had sworn an oath to do. While some of these local legislators and judges and attorneys are known widely, most of them are not. They may have great political ambition that will take them beyond their state, but on Monday, when the electoral college met, they had only care for this fragile democracy. They went through all the bureaucratic steps of being electors in our confounding voting system. They signed all their paperwork and dropped their ballots into boxes or handed them over to counters. They chatted among themselves during the frequent lulls at state capitols around the country. But when it was all done, President-elect Joe Biden received his 306 electoral vote