Vice President Harris tried to share some optimism along with her supporters whereas addressing her Election Day loss to President-elect Trump on Tuesday, advising them to carry onto their “power.”
“I just have to remind you, don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you. you have the same power that you did before November 5, and you have the same purpose that you did, and you have the same ability to engage and inspire,” Harris stated in a video shared by the Democratic Occasion on social platform X.
“So don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you,” she added.
The video message was an excerpt from her discuss Tuesday with the celebration’s monetary committee, when she and her working mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), mentioned the election because the marketing campaign’s spending has been below scrutiny.
Through the name, Harris thanked high donors for backing the ticket regardless of it coming quick earlier this month.
“The outcome of this election is obviously not what we wanted. It is not what we worked so hard for, but I am proud of the race we ran and your role in this was critical,” Harris stated. “What we did in 107 days was unprecedented. Think about the coalition that we built.”
The vice chairman additionally famous that the marketing campaign raised practically $1.5 billion in the course of the roughly three-month marketing campaign run. Nearly 8 million donors contributed to the ticket with a median donation being $56, she added.
“The work that you all did, it’s going to have [a] lasting effect,” she continued in her message. “Again I’ll say, you know, the election didn’t turn out like we wanted it to, certainly not as we planned for it to, but understand that the work we put into it was about empowering people. That’s the spirit with what we did.”
Different members of Harris’s staff took to the “Pod Save America” podcast Tuesday, giving extra perception into the marketing campaign’s decision-making course of.
Stephanie Cutter, a senior adviser to the marketing campaign, stated Harris “wasn’t willing” to publicly break with President Biden and wished to sidestep the unfavorable headlines within the press that such a transfer may trigger.
“She wasn’t willing to, you know, change that precedent for whoever the future president, vice presidential partnership would be because it would mean a whole, you know, different set of problems, as if we don’t have enough problems in our democracy right now,” Cutter stated on the podcast.
Harris marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon defended the vice chairman amid claims that she dodged the media, calling the notion “bulls—.”
“I think back and think we should have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were [trying to] reach and — but we had a limited amount of time to reach the people [we were trying to] reach and we were [trying to] go to them,” O’Malley Dillon advised the podcast.
“But being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything, or we were afraid to have interviews, is completely bulls‑‑‑,” she added.
Harris in the end conceded to Trump throughout an handle from her alma mater, Howard College. The president-elect’s victory has rattled Democrats — who additionally misplaced each chambers of Congress — and has led to ongoing conversations about what led to their struggles on the polls and the way they can flip the web page on the losses.
