Vice President Kamala Harris canceled a deliberate speech at an election night time get together however had not but conceded defeat early Wednesday after former President Donald Trump was elected to a different time period.
Trump defeated Harris by capturing at the very least 270 of the electoral votes wanted to win the presidency. His tally may improve as extra votes are counted.
On Tuesday night time, Harris was anticipated to handle her election night time get together at Howard College in Washington, D.C., a traditionally Black school the place she was an undergraduate.
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“We nonetheless have votes to depend. We nonetheless have states that haven’t been referred to as but. We are going to proceed, in a single day, to battle to make it possible for each vote is counted, that each voice has spoken,” Harris’ marketing campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond stated Tuesday night time. “So you will not hear from the vp tonight, however you’ll hear from her tomorrow.”
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Howard alumni, Democratic activists, Biden administration officers and Harris supporters had packed into the school’s Yard, the place inspirational figures such because the late South African President Nelson Mandela, former U.S. President Barack Obama and discuss present host Oprah Winfrey have delivered addresses over time, hoping to see Harris converse on Tuesday night.
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