Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in her first public comments since the election. Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of campaign staffers and students at her alma mater, Howard University, Harris called accepting the results a “fundamental principle of American democracy.” But she encouraged her supporters to keep fighting for the ideals her campaign championed, even in the face of defeat. ‘What A Day’ newsletter editor Greg Walters was in the audience for Harris' speech. He spoke with some of the vice president's supporters about how they're taking it all in. Also on the show: Washington Post White House reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb talks about what’s next for the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party. And Crooked Correspondent Todd Zwillich gives us an update on some of the close House and Senate races.
It's Thursday, November 7th.
I'm Jane Costen, and this is Water Day, the show where we're putting our heads down and getting back to work after a brief session of uninterrupted screaming.
On today's show, we're gonna make it, and there's some good and bad news in Congress, so let's get into it.
And here to help me do that is our good friend Josie Duffy Rice.
Josie, how are you?
I'm sure everything's normal and good and fine in Georgia.
Everything is phenomenal, Jane.
I.
I've had a great week.
Nothing's gone wrong.
It's been awesome.
No downsides.
Nothing has gone wrong at all.
Nope.
Yeah.
Well, glad to be here to talk.
About things that definitely didn't go wrong.
Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded to President elect Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Harris addressed a crowd of hundreds of campaign staffers and students who gathered on the lawn of her alma mater, Howard University, and she said it was important to accept defeat.
A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the results.