Mike Pence sends message to Kamala Harris after certifying her loss… four years after his VERY different Jan 6

Former Vice President Mike Pence commended Vice President Kamala Harris for holding up her Constitutional duty and certifying her election loss to President-elect Donald Trump. 

In a message on X posted after the joint session of Congress wrapped up, Pence said it was ‘particularly admirable that Vice President Harris would preside over the certification of a presidential election that she lost.’ 

Pence was in the same position four years ago, albeit not the individual at the top of the ticket.

That role nearly cost him his life. 

The angry MAGA mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol as the election certification was underway was particularly angry at Pence for not using his role to throw out Electoral College votes from swing states that narrowly went President Joe Biden’s away. 

Trump had falsely claimed that the election had been stolen due to widespread voter fraud – ‘the big lie’ that many of his supporters bought. 

Supporters of the president erected makeshift gallows and chanted ‘hang Mike Pence.’ 

During the House select committee on January 6th hearings, it came out that a confidential informant on the Proud Boys had told the FBI that if members of the group had found Pence that day they would have killed him. 

Still Pence refused to leave the Capitol, hiding out in a garage-like structure deemed a secure location within the complex. 

‘The vice president did not want to take any chance that the world would see the vice president of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol,’ his counselor to the vice president Greg Jacob testified to committee members in 2022. 

Still his role in January 6th – and certifying President Joe Biden’s election win – tossed Pence into the political wilderness. 

He ran for president in the 2024 cycle – but his bid didn’t even last five months, as he abandoned his White House bid in October 2023.

One of his aides, Olivia Troye, became a household name for her support of Harris. 

The two Republicans who worked on the January 6 House committee – former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – also endorsed the Democratic nominee over what they learned through their investigation.

Pence didn’t go that route. 

Instead his PAC paid for issue-oriented ads to help Republican candidates on the ballot, while Pence sat the race out. 

Ahead of the election, Troye voiced frustration to DailyMail.com that Pence wouldn’t more explicitly back Harris after Trump’s rhetoric endangered his life. 

‘I think his voice would be a powerful voice and make a difference,’ she pointed out after appearing at a ‘Party Over Country’ Harris event in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. ‘He knows more than anybody else what Donald Trump truly is.’

Pence’s decision to launch issue ads that could hurt Democrats confounded the former Pence aide. 

‘I don’t actually understand the purpose of those ads. It’s been very baffling, especially when he knows that, you know, the threat and danger that Donald Trump poses,’ she added. 

‘I think he is still trying to hold onto the bona fides of a Republican Party that quite frankly I think is gone,’ Troye also offered. 

Pence continued to split the difference in his statement Monday.  

‘I welcome the return of order and civility to these historic proceedings and offer my most sincere congratulations and prayers to President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance on their election to lead this great Nation,’ Pence said. 

He called the peaceful transfer of power ‘the hallmark of our democracy’ and applauded lawmakers and Harris for completing the task ‘without controversy or objection.’ 

‘God bless our new President and Vice President and their families and may God continue to bless the United States of America,’ he said, concluding the statement.