Donald Trump certified winner of 2024 US presidential election without challenge

Donald Trump was certified as the winner of the 2024 election (Rick Scuteri/AP)

Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump on Monday, four years after he tried to stop the very process that will now return him to the White House.

Proceedings unfolded without violence or mayhem, in stark contrast to January 6 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.