Kamala Harris Breaks Silence After Donald Trump Is Elected President

Harris went connected to enactment she remains steadfast successful looking up and warring for "democracy, the regularisation of law, and for the ineffable thought that each 1 of us—no substance who we are oregon wherever we commencement out—has definite cardinal rights and freedoms that indispensable beryllium respected and upheld."

"And to the young radical who are watching," she continued, "it is OK to consciousness bittersweet and disappointed, but delight cognize it’s going to beryllium OK."

Noting that passim her run she would often say, "When we fight, we win," Harris added, "Here's the thing: Sometimes the combat takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. The important happening is don’t ever springiness up, don’t ever halt trying to marque the satellite a amended place."

Harris' comments travel conscionable hours aft Trump spoke to his supporters astatine a run party, lasting connected signifier with his moving mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance. Trump, who was previously elected arsenic the 45th president alongside erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence, is acceptable to present go the 47th president of the United States.

“I privation to convey the American radical for the bonzer grant of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president,” Trump told the assemblage portion lasting onstage successful West Palm Beach, Florida. "This was a question similar nary 1 has ever seen before. Frankly, I judge this was the top governmental question of each time.”

Meanwhile, Harris run co-chair Cedric Richmond addressed the assemblage of supporters that gathered astatine Howard University successful Washington, D.C., noting that the vice president would not instrumentality the signifier arsenic the results continued to rotation in.

"We inactive person votes to count,” helium explained. “We inactive person states that person not been called yet, we volition proceed overnight to marque definite each ballot is counted, that each dependable has spoken.”

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden—who defeated Trump during the 2020 statesmanlike election—announced that helium was pulling retired of the 2024 race, endorsing Harris arsenic the Democratic campaigner soon thereafter.

“My chap Democrats, I person decided not to judge the information and to absorption each my energies connected my duties arsenic President for the remainder of my term,” helium shared connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, July 21. "My precise archetypal determination arsenic the enactment nominee successful 2020 was to prime Kamala Harris arsenic my Vice President. And it’s been the champion determination I’ve made."

He continued, "Today I privation to connection my afloat enactment and endorsement for Kamala to beryllium the nominee of our enactment this year. Democrats—it’s clip to travel unneurotic and bushed Trump. Let’s bash this.”

In the months that followed, Harris elaborate her program to “seek communal consciousness solutions,” for issues specified arsenic termination rights, arsenic she expressed successful her November run ad.

“Together, we volition physique a brighter aboriginal for our nation,” she added, “where we basal for freedom, we basal for justice, we basal for the dignity of work.” 

And though Harris spent overmuch of her months-long run fielding disapproval astir her contention and sex, she shared that she believed the enactment she did was each “about representing each the people."

"I respect the information that we each person truthful overmuch much successful communal than what separates us,” she told reporters connected Oct. 30, per NBC News, “and that astir radical privation a president that understands that, that gets that and approaches their relation of enactment that way."

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