WASHINGTON DC – Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first public comments since losing the 2024 White House race to former President Trump, urged supporters to “accept the results.”
But Harris on Wednesday afternoon emphasized that “while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.”
The Vice President spoke at Howard University, her alma mater, where her campaign held a large Election Night watch party. Harris never addressed the crowd on Tuesday night, as initial optimism about the election turned dour as the clock struck past midnight.
Trump ended up winning a sweeping electoral and popular vote victory over Harris, as Republicans won back the Senate for the first time in four years. Meanwhile, control of the House was still up for grabs on the day after the election.
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Vice President Kamala Harris gestures as she delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) ((AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
The vice president, who walked to the podium one last time to Beyonce’s “Freedom,” the song that had become the vice president’s unofficial anthem, noted near the top of her roughly twelve minute address that “my heart is full today.”
“The outcome of this election is not what we hoped, not what we fought, not what we voted for,” Harris said. “But hear when I say… the light of America’s promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.”
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And the vice president seemed to take aim at Trump, who for four years has blamed his 2020 White House loss to President Biden on unproven claims of a “rigged election” and who repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to overturn the results.
“Earlier today I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory,” Harris said. “I…
