By Costas Pitas
(Reuters) -Republican former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, will go head-to-head for the first time next week in a prime-time debate ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
Here is a timeline of events related to the election between now and Inauguration Day next January.
– Sept. 10: Trump and Harris will debate on ABC at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT on Sept. 11) at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of several battleground states that will help determine the outcome of the election.
– Sept. 18: Trump, the first sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, is due to be sentenced in the Manhattan hush money case where he was found guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star, should the judge decide to uphold the conviction.
– Oct. 1: Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic rival Tim Walz will take part in a debate hosted by CBS News.
– Nov. 5: Election Day
– Later in November: It could take days for the election result to be known, especially if it is close and mail-in ballots are a factor.
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– Jan. 6: The vice president presides over the Electoral College vote count at a joint session of Congress, announces the results and declares who has been elected.
Ahead of the count on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump lambasted his vice president, Mike Pence, for refusing to try to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s win. On that day, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters trying to stop the count. Biden’s win was certified later that day.
Congress has since passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, which requires approval of one-fifth of the House and Senate to consider a challenge to a state’s results – a much higher bar than existed before, when any single lawmaker from each chamber could trigger a challenge.
– Jan. 20: The inauguration of the election winner and their vice president takes place. At this ceremony, the victor and vice president are officially sworn into office.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Susan Heavey; Editing by Howard Goller, Matthew Lewis, Deepa Babington, William Maclean and Jonathan Oatis)
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