Kamala Harris deserved a Grammy for the way she conducted herself presiding over the electoral confirmation of the 2024 presidential election, which she lost.

Harris, presiding over a joint session of Congress Monday showed all the poise and confidence she lacked as the Democrats’ candidate for president.

Gone were the garden salads and the cackles of the campaign, replaced by a serious of purpose as she read the electoral results of the election: 312 votes for Donald Trump and 226 votes for Kamala Harris.

All that was missing was a Nikki Glaser-like comment — she was the comedian who hosted the Grammy Awards — made to the hundreds of actors, singers, writers, musicians, entertainers and celebrities at the Grammy gala the night before.

Quoting Glaser, Harris could have said to famous fellow Democrats like Barack Obama or those in the packed House chamber, like Nancy Pelosi, Hakim Jeffries and others:

“I am not here to roast you tonight. I want you to know that. And how could I, really? You’re all so famous, so talented, so powerful. I mean you could really do anything. Except tell the country who to vote for.”

“But it’s OK. You’ll get ‘em next time — if there is one.”

Surely that would have brought down the house, so to speak, at least among Republicans, as it did at the Grammy celebration.

But the majority of the cheers and applause from Harris’s announcement of the certification of the election came from the Republicans in the chamber who celebrated the Trump victory.

It was all in sharp contrast to four years earlier when Trump supporters stupidly stormed the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of Joe Biden’s win. Even then Vice President Mike Pence had to be evacuated from the building during the chaos.

And Harris was different too, at least different than how she sounded on the campaign trail.

And that is probably because she was herself, free from Biden and all the political consultants and paid campaign advisors who did her no good during the campaign but made fortunes for themselves as Harris burned through some $2 billion in campaign funds.

Commenting on her role as vice president reading the results of her defeat, she said, “One of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power.

“Today I did what I have done my entire career, which is take seriously the oath that I have taken many times, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

If only Joe Biden could be as articulate.

The contrast — and the alienation — between Biden and Harris, once huggers, appears to be growing, particularly as Biden, who was forced to drop his candidacy for reelection, now claims, that unlike Harris, he would have beaten Trump.

The reality is that Trump would have beaten the delusionary Biden by a bigger margin than he did Harris.

Granted that the powers of a vice president are limited, but even so the reality also is that Harris is leaving office with the dignity and class that an angry Joe Biden lacks.

After months of saying he would not pardon his criminally convicted deadbeat son Hunter, Joe Biden did just that.

While talking about a smooth transition, Biden, or the bodyguard of liars around him, are making such a transition as difficult as possible.

It took a court order, for instance, to halt the Biden administration from selling off tons of border wall equipment for pennies on the dollar that Trump will use to complete construction of the border wall.

While Trump was elected on a “drill, baby, drill” campaign theme, Biden last week issued an order banning all new offshore drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific seashores.

Trump accused Biden of “doing everything possible to make the transition as difficult as possible.”

Indeed, Biden is leaving the White House the way the U.S. departed Saigon in 1975, leaving chaos behind.

And as a final touch, he did not even give Harris the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Biden will be remembered as a blip between two Trumps.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@aol.com

Evacuation of Saigon (Herald file photo)