After skipping out on speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday afternoon.
The sitting vice president, thrown into the race without a primary some 100 days before the election after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal, told supporters not to despair but continue “the fight that fueled this campaign.”
By the time Harris addressed her supporters from her alma mater, the bleachers were nearly empty.
While some states remain to be called, Harris fell to former president and now president-elect Donald Trump by what will surely be a larger electoral college margin than Hillary Clinton in 2016. Harris appears unlikely to carry a single swing state after crushing defeats in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
“Let me say my heart is full today. My…
