Vice President Harris conceded Wednesday in the presidential race against President-elect Trump.
Why it matters: Harris fared worse than Democrats had hoped at the polls, losing decisively to Trump in several battleground states that President Biden won four years earlier.
- Harris called Trump on Wednesday afternoon to congratulate him, per a senior Harris aide. She’s expected to deliver remarks at Howard University later in the day.
Zoom in: Harris told Trump she’d ensure a peaceful transfer of power from the Biden administration to his, Harris’ campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in an email to campaign staff.
- “You left everything on the field,” O’Malley Dillon wrote to the staff. “You built a first-rate, historic presidential campaign in basically 90 days. You navigated things that no one has ever had to navigate, and likely no one will ever have to again.”
- “Losing is unfathomably painful,” she added. “It is hard. This will take a long time to process. But the work of protecting America from the impacts of a Trump presidency starts now.”
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