Exhaustion, depression, and a hint of defiance – the mood inside Kamala HQ

Last night, connected my mode to the Harris HQ ticker party, I was driving down a motorway approaching Washington, DC, with Kamala signs covering my rental car.

The roadworthy was endless, my eyes gritty and bleary from a time of campaigning that began astatine 4:30am, crossing 3 states, endlessly promoting Harris’ level connected TV and knocking connected implicit 1,000 doors, but my bosom was full.

A car pulled up beside maine and honked. Annoyed, I prepared to flip a finger, but arsenic I turned my head, I saw a young Black miss beaming, holding her ain Kamala motion and waving it with each her heart. 

I paused, honked back, waved and past became flooded with emotion. We were doing it for her, I thought.

All the hours, sleepless nights, exhaustion, leaving my beingness successful the UK and moving to different state — it was each for that miss and each the others similar her.

And it was worthy it due to the fact that tonight, we would yet invited America’s archetypal pistillate president and crook the leafage on Donald Trump’s part and hatred.

Except we didn’t. 

Now it feels similar that aboriginal has been taken from her — from each of america — not conscionable for those who, similar me, believed in Kamala’s vision but for everyone who volition person to endure the adjacent 4 years.

I deliberation of that young miss and others similar her, who merit a aboriginal that reflects the committedness we fought for.

For what it’s worth, I anticipation I’ve been wrong. I anticipation Trump and Vance don’t enforce nationwide bans connected abortion, dismantle ideology and concede Ukraine to Putin.  

In her 2016 concession, Hillary Clinton said, ‘We beryllium Donald Trump an unfastened caput and the accidental to lead.’ She was gracious, but we’ve seen what benignant of person helium is now.

We don’t beryllium him an unfastened mind, helium owes america honorable enactment that serves the radical and protects their rights. He owes america much than conscionable occupying the White House. 

In the Harris camp, the temper is sombre, but determination are flickers of resilience.

We gave it our all, and we believed successful what and who we were warring for. Kamala stood for thing bigger — a imaginativeness of a aboriginal wherever everyone belongs, wherever the authorities serves the people, each the people.

She is smart, experienced, and tough, with a vocation built connected warring for justness and equality. I’ve defended her from time 1 and volition proceed to bash so. 

As a prosecutor, senator, and vice president, Kamala has shown clip and again that she has the strength, resilience and quality to lead. If there’s a flaw to beryllium recovered successful the campaign, it’s not successful the candidate.

She inspired millions and instilled anticipation that the aboriginal could beryllium brighter than the past.

I can’t get the representation of that young miss connected the motorway retired of my caput — her hopeful face, her grin arsenic she waved her Kamala sign.

What is she doing now? Did she enactment up? I accidental her mum has told her by now.

What are they going through? All crossed America — and the satellite — mothers and fathers volition beryllium breaking this quality to their children, and my bosom aches for them.

For my portion successful that, I’m sorry. But, I americium definite that it’s for her that we indispensable support going. Even successful the look of this heartbreak — successful fact, particularly — I person to judge that what we did mattered.

That we made a difference, adjacent if we couldn’t spot it done to the end. And it hurts, it truly does, but maybe, 1 day, that miss volition instrumentality up the mantle herself.

Maybe she’ll beryllium the 1 to yet decorativeness what we started. And past possibly this volition person each been worthy it.

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