WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to give a speech Wednesday morning to officially concede the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.
Projections from the Associated Press and others show Trump winning both the Electoral College and popular vote as a majority of votes in key states come in.
Harris is expected to address supporters and the nation at Howard University in Washington D.C., her alma mater.
The historic Black college is a special place for Harris. It's where she won her first campaign, for freshman class representative. It's also where she launched her 2019 bid for the White House, and was one of her first stops on the day she was announced as Joe Biden's running mate in 2020.
She had hoped the school would serve as the site of her triumph Tuesday, as she watched election results trickle in. Early indications were that she would speak to supporters Tuesday night regardless of where the results stood, to thank them for their work during the campaign.
But as election night wore on and it became increasingly clear that Trump was the likely winner, those plans changed. Cedrick Richmond, one of Harris' campaign co-chairs, addressed the crowd just before 1 a.m. Wednesday morning instead.
"We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to try to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken," campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said. "So you won't hear from the vice president tonight. But you will hear from her tomorrow, because she will back here tomorrow to address not only the HU family, not only to address her supporters, but to address the nation."
