Vice President Kamala Harris is set to preside over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump. In doing so Monday, she will join a short list of other vice presidents who have overseen the ceremonial confirmation of their own losses. Richard Nixon did it after losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960. Al Gore followed suit when the U.S. Supreme Court tipped the 2000 election to George W. Bush. But no other vice president has been holding the gavel when Congress certified their loss to a president-elect who refused to concede the previous election and directed his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol, where they violently interrupted the proceedings on Jan. 6, 2021.
