Harris waiting to address base after loss shows 'lacking a grasp of American democratic tradition': analysts

Vice President Kamala Harris' abiding soundlessness pursuing President-elect Trump's triumph suggests an inability to measurement up arsenic a person for her base, ineligible scholars say.

The Democratic nominee has not yet spoken to her supporters, nor encouraged them to judge the predetermination results, since Trump was named the victor of the 2024 statesmanlike race aboriginal Wednesday morning. Two sources confirmed to Fox that the Harris run was vigor soundless Wednesday greeting and did not supply talking points to surrogates, donors oregon influencers. 

The vice president is expected to present remarks astatine Howard University astatine 4 p.m. EST connected Wednesday, wherever she volition code Americans for the archetypal clip since losing the statesmanlike contention to Trump. However, analysts accidental she should not person waited until the day aft the predetermination to code her base.

Jonathan Turley, a ineligible student and a Fox News contributor, said Trump's wide way to triumph should person prompted her to concede sooner.

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Vice President Kamala Harris looks astatine a show of the lawsuit from backstage, conscionable earlier her last run rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo)

"The true trial of enactment is to measurement guardant erstwhile it is astir needed. Half of this colonisation is profoundly aggrieved by this decision. Part of that angst and anxiousness was fueled by the rage rhetoric and panic authorities connected the left, including the Harris campaign," Turley told Fox News Digital. 

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"Just arsenic voters were going to the polls, the New York politician declared a bulk of voters to beryllium ‘unAmerican.’ This is the telephone of enactment to measurement guardant and admit the victory. There are nary large challenges oregon questions. The predetermination is over," Turley added. "The lone remaining substance is simply a concession. It has to beryllium much than an afterthought successful the precocious day the pursuing day. It needs to beryllium rendered erstwhile it is astir needed."

Celebrating connected predetermination nighttime are, from left, Barron Trump, President-elect Trump, Melania Trump, Usha Chilukuri Vance, Sen. JD Vance and Ivanka Trump, astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center successful West Palm Beach, Florida, connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)

Legal expert Andy McCarthy, a FOX News contributor and a elder chap astatine the National Review Institute, suggested that remaining retired of show since the predetermination results is simply a "graceless" misstep.

"I’d conscionable reason that this is yet different denotation – among countless indications – that she was neither substantively nor temperamentally up to the presidency," McCarthy told Fox News Digital. "There is nary evident ineligible strategy astatine work. She is simply being graceless and suggesting that she and her squad bash not cognize what to do… adjacent though what to bash is obvious: concede, congratulate the caller president, and pledge to cooperate successful an businesslike transition."

The field of Howard University is pictured aft the decision of an predetermination nighttime run ticker enactment for Vice President Kamala Harris, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, successful Washington. (Susan Walsh/AP)

"I deliberation this has little to bash with ideology per se than with Harris’s lacking a grasp of American antiauthoritarian tradition," McCarthy continued. "Perhaps she figures Trump doesn’t complaint information owed to his refusal to judge the 2020 predetermination results. But if that’s the case, it's not sensible, it’s spiteful."

Harris was not contiguous astatine her triumph lawsuit astatine Howard University connected Tuesday night, which came to an abrupt extremity up of Trump being named the victor of the statesmanlike race.

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Despite not making immoderate nationalist appearances oregon remarks since predetermination night, Harris reportedly called Trump to congratulate him connected winning the contention up of her code Wednesday afternoon, according to a elder Harris aide.

Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.