Kamala Harris gave her speech after calling Trump to recognize his victory “and congratulate him on it.” In his appearance at Howard University, in Washington DC, he has committed to collaborating in a “peaceful” transfer of powers, just what the former president refused to carry out in 2020 after losing to Joe Biden. The US president himself spoke this Wednesday with Trump, whom he invited to meet with him at the White House. Biden will also make a statement this Thursday about this Tuesday’s election result.
“The result is not what we wanted,” Harris said: “It is not what we had fought for, voted for, but the light of the extraordinary promise of the United States will always shine. Let’s never give up and keep fighting. I know there are a lot of emotions right now, but we must accept the results of these elections, it is the difference between us and a monarchy or tyranny. “We are all loyal to the US Constitution, not to a party or the president.”
Harris continued: “I am here to say that I consider the election lost, but not the fight that has fueled our campaign. The fight for freedom, for opportunity, for justice, for the dignity of all people, for the ideas at the heart of our nation: I will never stop fighting for a future in which the United States can fight for aspirations.”
It has been 92 days since Harris was nominated as the candidate for the Democrats instead of Biden. The script twist with Harris ahead of the electoral ticket restored hope to the party and raised the numbers in a poll that had just sunk after Biden’s disastrous battle against Trump on CNN. Although Harris was able to revive a campaign that seemed lost, the results at the polls have not corresponded.
Harris has lost the blue wall (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan) that Bien managed to recover in 2016. He has also not been able to keep Georgia and it does not seem like he will keep Arizona or Nevada, according to the latest projections from the Associated Press. Of the seven swing states that were projected in these elections, Harris has lost in all of them. In the midst of the party’s internal crisis, an increasingly lonely Biden once assured that only he was capable of defeating Trump.
“Women have the right to make decisions about our bodies,” said the vice president, “and continue the fight for our schools and for streets without weapons. We will not give up in the fight for democracy, the rule of law, equality. There are rights and freedoms that have to be respected and defended, and we will continue to fight this fight, at the polls, in the streets and in the courts. This is not the time to let our arms drop, but to roll up our sleeves, to organize, to mobilize, to commit ourselves to freedom and justice and the future that we can build together. Only when it is dark, you see the stars. I know that many think that we are entering a dark world, but let us feel the sky with the shine of millions of stars, the light of optimism, faith and service, and may that work guide us toward the promise of the United States.”
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