Harris formally concedes one day after Trump's sweeping victory

WASHINGTON DC - Vice President Kamala Harris, successful her archetypal nationalist comments since losing the 2024 White House contention to erstwhile President Trump, urged supporters to "accept the results." 

But Harris connected Wednesday day emphasized that "while I concede this election, I bash not concede the combat that fueled this campaign."

The Vice President spoke astatine Howard University, her alma mater, wherever her run held a ample Election Night ticker party. Harris ne'er addressed the assemblage connected Tuesday night, arsenic archetypal optimism astir the predetermination turned dour arsenic the timepiece struck past midnight.

Trump ended up winning a sweeping electoral and fashionable ballot triumph implicit Harris, arsenic Republicans won backmost the Senate for the archetypal clip successful 4 years. Meanwhile, power of the House was inactive up for grabs connected the time aft the election.

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Vice President Kamala Harris gestures arsenic she delivers a concession code for the 2024 statesmanlike election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, connected the field of Howard University successful Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) ((AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

The vice president, who walked to the podium 1 past clip to Beyonce's "Freedom," the opus that had go the vice president's unofficial anthem, noted adjacent the apical of her astir 12 infinitesimal code that "my bosom is afloat today."

"The result of this predetermination is not what we hoped, not what we fought, not what we voted for," Harris said. "But perceive erstwhile I say… the airy of America’s committedness volition ever pain agleam arsenic agelong arsenic we ne'er springiness up and arsenic agelong arsenic we support fighting."

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And the vice president seemed to instrumentality purpose astatine Trump, who for 4 years has blamed his 2020 White House nonaccomplishment to President Biden connected unproven claims of a "rigged election" and who repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to overturn the results. 

"Earlier contiguous I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him connected his victory," Harris said. "I besides told him we volition assistance him and his squad with their modulation and that we volition prosecute successful a peaceful transportation of power."

She emphasized that "a cardinal rule of American ideology is that erstwhile we suffer an election, we judge the results… anyone who seeks the nationalist spot indispensable grant it."

And the vice president stressed that "we beryllium loyalty not to a president oregon a enactment but to the Constitution of the United States."

President-elect Donald Trump waves to supporters successful West Palm Beach, Florida, astatine his Election Night triumph party, connected November 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Harris, a erstwhile San Francisco territory attorney, California lawyer wide and U.S. senator, ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 statesmanlike nomination. But Biden named his superior rival arsenic his moving mate and the 2 person spent the past 4 years steering the nation.

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Harris, for astir of the 2024 predetermination cycle, was the dutiful moving mate arsenic Biden bid for a 2nd four-year word successful the White House.

But everything changed successful precocious June, owed to Biden's disastrous statement show against Trump.

President Biden and erstwhile President Donald Trump during the statement successful Atlanta, connected June 27, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The 81-year-old Biden's halting and stumbling transportation fueled questions astir his carnal and intelligence quality to service different 4 years successful the White House. And it sparked calls from wrong the Democratic Party for Biden to driblet retired of the White House race.

The president yet succumbed to the unit and connected July 21, successful a blockbuster announcement that rocked the 2024 election, Biden ended his bid and endorsed his vice president.

The Democratic Party rapidly coalesced astir Harris, who instantly enjoyed a leap successful the polls and a monolithic surge successful fundraising.

The Harris honeymoon continued done the precocious August Democratic National Convention, and into September, erstwhile astir pundits declared her the victor of the 1 and lone statesmanlike statement betwixt her and Trump. 

Vice President Kamala Harris greets President Biden astatine the extremity of the archetypal time of the Democratic National Convention connected Aug. 19, 2024, successful Chicago. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

But arsenic the calendar moved from September into October, Trump appeared to regain his footing, and nationalist sentiment surveys indicated the erstwhile president gaining momentum. 

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Then, successful the last days of the campaign, the temper and the vibe appeared to power again, this clip to Harris, who closed retired her White House bid connected a affirmative enactment and didn't notation Trump's sanction during the past 48 hours starring up to Election Day. 

Meanwhile, Trump struck a much antagonistic and angrier code connected the run way arsenic helium crisscrossed the cardinal battleground states successful the agelong run.

But the erstwhile president ended up with a sweeping victory, arsenic Americans returned him to the White House.

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump, his woman Melania Trump and their Barron Trump, get astatine an predetermination nighttime triumph party, connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, successful West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Preliminary information from the Fox News Voter Analysis of the 2024 predetermination pointed to a governmental realignment, arsenic it spotlighted that Trump ran up the people with his MAGA basal portion narrowing accepted Democratic advantages among Black, Hispanic, and young voters. 

Harris came adjacent successful her bid to go the archetypal pistillate elected to the presidency but was incapable to marque capable gains successful the ideological mediate of the electorate to offset defections among groups that traditionally ballot Democratic. 

The Fox News Voter Analysis is a survey of much than 110,000 voters nationwide which highlights the 2024 campaign’s cardinal dynamics. 

Just arsenic damaging - Harris wasn't capable to flight the monolithic unpopularity of the Biden/Harris administration, wherever polls indicated that astir 3 quarters of voters said the state was connected the incorrect track.

The Fox News Voter Analysis spotlighted that successful an predetermination wherever voters crossed the state wanted change, they chose Trump’s outsider entreaty implicit Kamala Harris’ committedness to "turn the page" connected the Trump era. 

Fox News' Dana Blanton and Victoria Balara contributed to this report

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