Vice President Kamala Harris called President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to concede the election, according to a statement that her campaign manager, Jenn O’Malley Dillon, sent to campaign staff. Harris told Trump that she would work with outgoing President Joe Biden “to ensure a peaceful transfer of power, unlike what we saw in 2020,” Dillon said in an email to campaign staff. “She also made clear that she hopes he will be a President for all Americans.”
Harris is scheduled to make her first public comments since losing to Trump at 4 p.m. EST at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
“I’ll leave you with this: losing is unfathomably painful. It is hard. This will take a long time to process,” Dillon wrote. “But the work of protecting America from the impacts of a Trump Presidency starts now.”
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