Vice President Harris gently ribbed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) through the official Senate swearing-in on Friday.
“Stand right here. Although that is not your nature, to just stand where you’re told to stand, but give it a try,” Harris mentioned, per C-SPAN footage, greeting the unbiased senator with a pat on the again. Sanders appeared to offer a tender snicker earlier than the pair began the swear-in.
The sunshine-hearted second got here as Harris opened the Senate for the 119th Congress on Friday afternoon. In the meantime, the Home was assembly for a contentious Speakership vote, throughout which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held on to his gavel by a one-vote margin.
Sanders, an unbiased who caucuses with Democrats, supported Harris’s fast-tracked presidential bid in 2024 and praised her following her loss, saying she did her “very best” within the race in opposition to President-elect Trump.
However he additionally supplied some searing criticism of the Democratic celebration within the wake of Trump’s win.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders mentioned in a earlier assertion concerning the outcomes of the election.
Sanders is now getting into his fourth six-year Senate time period, and Harris is on her approach out of the White Home amid questions on her subsequent steps.
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