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Between 73 and 79 days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office. The inauguration takes place for each new presidential term, even if the president is continuing in office for a second term.
This past presidential election was 76 days from election to inauguration.
Millions of American citizens say it is the longest 76 days in history, with 18 days to go.
The reasons for the urgency are seen everywhere in our country.
While the Leftists continue their march against America, Trump is more prepared to take power on January 20 than almost any previous president in history.
Be informed, not misled.
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A few things that always happen between an election and an inauguration.
- November 7: State certification of results begins
Once votes are counted, it’s up to the state election officials to certify that the results are accurate.
The deadlines for states to certify the official vote tallies are staggered. Delaware comes first, and must certify its votes by Nov. 7, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Other states follow.
- November 11: Presidential transition briefings must begin.
- December 11: Ascertainment
Once the states have certified their results, each state’s executive—the governor in most cases—signs “certificates of ascertainment” formally allocating that state’s electors to the winning candidate. These are the pieces of paper that Congress treats as the result. Dec. 11 is the deadline for each state’s governor to sign the certificates.
The individuals named on that paper will be the electors expected to cast the state’s votes in the Electoral College. The signed certificates will be paired with the official electoral votes for the state and copies will be sent to Congress and the Archivist of the United States.
- December 17: Electors vote
In every state, the electors will meet and cast votes for president and vice president. Each election cycle, this happens on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December. This year the day fell on Dec. 17.
- December 25: Electoral votes arrive in Washington, D.C.
They must arrive in Washington, D.C. by the fourth Wednesday in December, which this year fell on Christmas Day.
If the electoral votes haven’t arrived by Dec. 25, the president of the Senate or the archivist can request an extra copy held by the state’s top election officer.
- Jan. 3, 2025: House and Senate convene.
Every two years, the newly elected House and Senate convene at noon on Jan. 3. If the president of the Senate still has not received a set of electoral certificates by that time, copies can be requested from the Archivist.
- Jan. 6, 2025: Counting the electoral votes
The sitting Vice President ( Kamala Harris)—as president of the Senate—has a ceremonial duty to oversee the final step of the Electoral College process at 1 pm on Jan. 6, 2025, during a joint session of the House and Senate.
Ironically, Vice President Harris is scheduled to oversee the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 6, the anniversary of the so-called "insurrection."
- Jan 20, 2025: Inauguration Day
Around noon on Jan. 20, 2025, the President-elect will take the Oath of Office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
"Morning in America."
Once again, there is reason for anticipation of better things to come.
Incidentally, President Biden privately regrets dropping out of this year’s presidential election and reportedly insists he could’ve beaten President-elect Trump if he wasn’t pushed out of the race by his own party.
Few would agree.
He also regrets nominating Garland as A/G because he was apparently too slow for Biden in prosecuting Trump over the Jan. 6 riots – charges that were ultimately dismissed.
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have already articulated ambitious plans for his first 100 days in office.
He has promised on Day 1 — within the first few hours in fact — to close the U.S. border with Mexico and launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
Trump has promised to gut President Biden's climate subsidies and resume energy exploration, including offering tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers.
"We're going to drill, baby, drill," Trump said in late October at his rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. "And I will terminate the 'green new scam' and will cut your energy prices in half, 50%, within one year from Jan. 20."
Trump's main goal is to unwind Biden's policies and resume where he left off after his first term in office.
Republicans say they'll work "aggressively" for his agenda
Trump's allies in Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., have promised to act quickly.
That agenda includes extending Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, regulatory reform, and reviewing energy policy.
"As I told President Trump, I said, 'Mr. President, you could be the most consequential president of the modern era because we have to fix almost everything,'" Johnson told reporters in October. "And it begins first with securing the border, which the American people demand and deserve. Right after that, we get straight to the economy."
Resistance to the most "consequential president in the modern era."
Trump will also face pushback from Democratic opponents in Congress, as well as from civil liberties groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which say they will be prepared.
They have been dusting off their own playbooks from the first Trump administration and have promised to use the courts to fight Trump.
The ACLU even published a memo this summer outlining how it would counter potential abuses.
The next Congress is facing an urgent to-do list.
"Donald Trump has already threatened to abuse his power in these ways," the ACLU states in the memo. "He plans to leverage the DOJ [Department of Justice] and other governmental agencies to indict political opponents, replace civil servants and traditionally apolitical appointees with individuals willing to do his bidding regardless of legal and normative structures, and demand pledges of loyalty from civil service employees."
Takeaway
I believe Trump keeps a list of his promises and systematically works through the list to do what he promised the American public he would do.
The Left has no plan---no agenda for our country other than to undermine the very foundations upon which our country was founded and disassemble the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I believe God has given us a reprieve in the course of human events.
2025 will have 525,600 minutes.
We know what Trump plans to do with these minutes on behalf of the country.
Today is a good time to ask ourselves what we will do with these minutes should the Lord tarry and sustain our lives through this new year on behalf of the reprieve He has given us.
The prophet Jeremiah wrote Lamentations in a time of grief and national mourning, after the once great city of Jerusalem fell to Babylon, circa 586 BC. The book describes great anguish—and great hope—in poetic form. The main theme of the book is God’s judgment on Judah’s sin as well as His compassion for His people. Lamentations contain “laments” or “loud cries” for Jerusalem and many expressions of anguish and pain, but in chapter 3, there is a beautiful passage of confidence and hope.
Lamentations 3:22-23: "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Jeremiah’s tone changes from despair to hope in Lamentations 3:21: "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
Great is thy faithfulness.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Hopeful. Be Prayerful. Be Engaged.