WASHINGTON: US Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a concession speech to the nation on Wednesday (Nov 6) after a whirlwind marketing campaign that did not cease Republican Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
“Whereas I concede this election, I don’t concede the combat that fuelled this marketing campaign,” she instructed supporters, a lot of them in tears, at her alma mater Howard College, a traditionally Black school in Washington.
Harris pledged to proceed preventing for ladies’s rights and in opposition to gun violence and to “combat for the dignity that each one individuals deserve”.
She mentioned she had referred to as President-elect Trump, congratulated him on his triumph and promised to have interaction in a peaceable switch of energy.
The somber temper was in placing distinction to the homecoming a couple of weeks in the past on the Howard campus when hundreds of scholars and alumni gathered forward of what they hoped could be the election of the nation’s first graduate of traditionally Black Faculties and Universities as president.
Harris addressed a crowd that included former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, aides in President Joe Biden’s White Home and hundreds of followers. Harris’ marketing campaign anthem, Beyonce’s “Freedom”, performed as she entered the stage.
Her working mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, joined the gang.
Harris inspired her supporters, particularly younger individuals, not to surrender even of their disappointment.
“Generally the combat takes some time. That does not imply we can’t win,” she mentioned.
