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Democrats are unlikely to oppose the will of the people with Vice President Kamala Harris expected to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s win on January 6, 2025, despite calls for a coup.

This week, a political media outlet caused a stir when it published a call for Democrats to reject Trump’s landslide victory over Harris on the pretense that he engaged in a so-called “insurrection” and urged lawmakers to reject the election results under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

In the column published by The Hill, the former editors-in-chief of the prestigious legal journals the Columbia Law Review and the Yale Law Journal conjured up the dubious legal theory for preventing Trump from taking office that was shot down by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming,” wrote Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte, a pair of ivory tower-dwelling elitists who scoffed at the idea that the “democracy” constantly preached by Democrats should apply when it comes to the real thing.

But despite their own invocations of the 14th Amendment against Trump – most vocally from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a former radical academic – Democrats apparently have no stomach for going there, with the optics of refusing the certification of the Electoral College being a big loser for the party after it squawked for the last four years about election denial.

On Thursday, Politico reported that “no Democrats are circulating plans to object to Donald Trump’s victory. Kamala Harris plans to certify his win” when Congress convenes to perform its constitutional duty on J6.

According to the outlet, “no one expects Harris to remotely entertain the idea — and Democrats have roundly dismissed it as a possibility.”

“Harris aides have said she intends to carry out her duties as all vice presidents have before her, in part because it is right and also because it’s the law. Indeed, lawmakers seem so certain that Jan. 6, 2025 will lack intrigue that they’ve largely treated it as an afterthought. Gone are the intensive strategy sessions and convoluted legal analyses aimed at pressuring the vice president to take an active role in the proceedings in order to reverse the outcome,” Politico reported, quashing the idea floated by the Ivy League eggheads in their explosive column.

“I think you’re going to have a pretty sort of normal transfer, and I think we will respect the wishes of the American people … in contrast to what happened January 6, 2021,” Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) said.

“I do feel like that’s worth saying over and over again,” added the congressman, the top Dem on the House committee that is tasked with the oversight of elections.

“I have not actually heard of anybody who intends to vote no,” Morelle said, “and I would certainly discourage it.”

Raskin had previously vowed that House Democrats would prevent Trump from taking office even though the Supreme Court rejected the 14th Amendment farce.

But with Trump overwhelmingly winning the Electoral College as well as the popular vote, Democrats would face public outrage if they actually go through with it.

It’s unlikely that there will even be a symbolic challenge as a group of Democrats did in 2017, the last time that Trump won the election.

“I’m not intending to do that again, because I think that people don’t differentiate,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the outgoing House Progressive Caucus queen bee.

“Harris will be presiding over the certification of her own defeat — a moment that is simultaneously uncomfortable and an ode to the peaceful transfer of power,” according to Politico. “She’s the third losing candidate to do so in recent history.”

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