Vice President Kamala Harris has finally been heard from following her historic loss to President-elect Donald Trump hours after the race was decisively called in his favor. Harris is scheduled to address the nation at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday following her election night defeat to President-elect Donald Trump. She will speak at Howard University, where her campaign hosted an election night party on Tuesday. Harris did not make a statement about her campaign on Tuesday night and has yet to release any formal remarks. She is expected to call Trump to concede before her speech this afternoon, reports said.
Fox News noted further: “Two sources confirm to Fox News that the Harris campaign has been radio silent this morning since U.S. media called the election for President-elect Donald Trump. Harris’ campaign team has sent zero talking points to surrogates, donors or influencers, sources said. One source tells Fox News Digital they got no answer even after reaching out.”
Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, securing a second term in the White House. He became only the second U.S. president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms, following Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1893. Harris entered the presidential race just over 100 days ago after President Biden, the winner of the Democratic primaries, was persuaded to step aside, Fox News further. Trump was projected to have surpassed the 270 electoral vote threshold following impressive victories in the battleground states of North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
With momentum on their side and victories for the White House and U.S. Senate behind them, Republicans on Wednesday moved closer to the ultimate prize in Washington politics: a majority in the U.S. House, which would pave the way for a more straightforward governing process over the next two years. The House GOP entered Election Day with one of the narrowest majorities in modern history.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AL) recognized this, telling Axios that his political team has spent over a year preparing for Tuesday’s elections. “We’ve been working for a year … preparing this playbook that we’ll talk about all the time for the next Congress,” he said, laying out a “keep your quarterback” message that has become easier after flipping several contested seats. “So if we’re going to … run those plays and execute them with precision, you got to keep the quarterback on the field and keep the same team,” he added.
Two years after Republicans were unable to deliver the much-anticipated “red wave” in the 2022 midterms, it finally materialized, sweeping away Democratic House members in swing districts. Republican Tom Barrett (R-MI) defeated Democrat Curtis Hertel, flipping a suburban seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is still in a tight race against former Rep. Mike Rogers as votes are counted for the Senate seat. In Pennsylvania’s 8th district, Republican Rob Bresnahan Jr. unseated incumbent Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA), reclaiming a seat that Republicans lost in the 2018 midterms.
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