Friday 08 / November / 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on winning the election race, merely a couple of hours before she is due to issue an address, media reports suggested.
An unnamed senior aides to Harris said the Democratic candidate had "discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans."
Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris thanked her supporters in a concession speech at Howard University in Washington DC and urged them to "keep fighting."
"While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign," Harris said, while telling supporters to not "give up" in making the world a better place.
"The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when I say that the light of America's promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting," she said.
Harris said she would "help" Republican Donald Trump with the presidential transition in January 2025.
After Trump lost the 2020 presidential race to Democratic President Joe Biden, he refused to concede. Harris said in her speech that "we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power," an allusion to the 2021 US Capitol Riot which occurred after Trump refused to recognize Biden's electoral victory in 2020.
