WashingtonKamala Harris has acknowledged Donald Trump‘s victory and promised a “peaceful” transition of power. The Democrat made her speech after calling the Republican this Wednesday morning to congratulate him. “The result is not what we wanted,” admitted Harris, who wanted to turn his defeat into a lesson in democratic values in contrast to the denialism of Trump in 2020, who has not yet acknowledged that he lost the elections.
Despite the disappointment among Democrats, who had pinned much of their hopes on the vice president, Harris has asked her supporters not to lose hope. “We will never abandon the fight for democracy and the rule of law,” said the vice-president. The Democrat, aware of the impact that four years of a government led by a more vindictive and darker Trump will have on the country, has asked her followers not to give up. Especially to young people, to whom he reminded them how “sometimes the fight takes time, but it doesn’t mean we can’t win”.
The Harris campaign had worked all these months to mobilize voters and try to give the country a fresh start. The Democrat, who had insisted on showing herself as the candidate for change, had to deal with the contradiction of promising a better future for the country while in government. The candidate had been able to make an impact in the middle of the campaign, but she continued to drag the problem of her indefinability that she sometimes made up under attractive slogans but with little consistency. Nor the legacy of Barack Obama, who handed him the “yes, we can“, nor the lessons learned in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, have been enough. Once again a woman stands at the gates of the White House.
Before Harris appeared, the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, also congratulated Trump on the results in a phone call. According to the White House, Biden has invited the tycoon to meet with him in the coming days. The president also plans to appear before the nation and has pledged “to ensure a smooth transition.” The promise will not be too difficult to fulfill considering that it was Trump who raised the specter of violence in the event of defeat.
The change of candidate
It’s been 92 days since Harris was nominated as the Democratic nominee over Biden. The turn of the script with Harris at the head of the electoral tandem gave hope back to the party and recovered the numbers in polls that had collapsed after the disastrous debate between Biden and Trump on CNN. Although Harris was able to revive a campaign that seemed lost, the results at the polls have not been as expected.
Harris has lost the blue wall (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan) that Biden managed to regain in 2016. He also hasn’t been able to keep Georgia and doesn’t seem likely to keep Arizona or Nevada, according to the latest Associated Press projections. Of the seven key states projected in this election, Harris has lost all of them. Amid the party’s internal crisis, an increasingly lonely Biden once asserted that only he was capable of defeating Trump.
