In a call with President-elect Donald Trump today, Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded yesterday’s election in an optimistic but sometimes combative speech in which she said that losing candidates must accept the results of an election without complaint.
Despite the loss and how supporters feel now, though, they must “never give up” the fight for what they believe. She vowed never to abandon her quest for abortion on demand and gun control.
Speaking at her alma mater, Howard University, Harris said the Biden-Harris administration would smooth Trump’s transition.
We Accept the Results
Supporters are sad and “feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it,” she said:
But we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
Doing so, she said, is a “fundamental principle … that when we lose an election, we accept the results.”
In something of a shot at Trump, who argued that the 2020 election was rigged, Harris continued:
That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny. And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same time, in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president, or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.
Yet, while she concedes the election, she does not concede “the fight that fueled this campaign,” a reminder that the far-left never rests until its nefarious goals are achieved.
That fight was the “fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation,” she continued, moving on to two of the Democrats’ obsessions: abortion through the ninth month of pregnancy and stopping “gun violence” — leftist code for gun confiscation.
“That is a fight I will never give up,” Harris said:
I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions and aspirations, where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body and not have their government telling them what to do. We will never give up the fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence.
Harris told her young supporters, many of whom are suffering mental breakdowns gone viral on social media, that feeling “sad and disappointed” is understandable.
“But please know, it’s gonna be OK,” she said.
Because “sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. The important thing is, don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give up.”
Latest Vote Tallies
The Trump campaign announced earlier today that Harris had called to concede, and that the two would work together to unify the country.
Meanwhile, only two states have yet to report results, and those will not change the election’s outcome.
Trump stands at 295 electoral votes, Harris at 224. With battlegrounds Nevada and Arizona trending for Trump, their 17 votes will give him 312.
The popular vote for Trump stands at 72 million; Harris’ at 67.3 million. The victory is a bruising repudiation of not only Harris, but also four years of Joe Biden’s policies, notably his border treason.
As for Harris’ unhinged voters, political analyst Mark Halperin predicted their reaction.
“I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” he told Tucker Carlson:
I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings, their connection to their vision of what the future for them and their children could be like. I think it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace.
Halperin predicted divorces, “workplace fights,” and “fights at kids’ birthday parties.”
A Trump victory for these voters, he said, would be “so traumatic, that it’s impossible for even the most mentally healthy person to truly process and incorporate into their daily life.”
The breakdown has begun.
