U.S. Vice President, Kamala Harrissaid Wednesday, after losing the presidential election against former president Donald Trumpwho accepts his defeat, but will not give up the fight to bring the light back to the United States.
“I am here to say: although I accept defeat, I do not renounce the struggle that drove this campaign.”Harris said, visibly moved, in a speech at Howard University in Washington, her first since she was declared the loser of the election.
Harris recalled that “a fundamental principle of democracy American democracy” is that when an election is lost, the results are accepted.
“That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny, and anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it,” he added, in a veiled reference to Trumpwho refused to accept the results in 2020 when he lost to Joe Biden.
“The light will return.”
The vice president, who took on the mission to get to the White House after the July retirement of President Bidenacknowledged their defeat in the elections, assuring that the result is not what they wanted or what they worked for, but promised that “the light of America will return”.
“The result is not what we wanted or what we worked for or what we voted for, but the light of the promised America will return. as long as we keep working and keep fighting.”He said in the place where his campaign headquarters were set up.
In her speech, which lasted just over ten minutes, the vice president thanked her campaign, her family and President Biden for the confidence placed in her: “I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the way we ran it. During the 107 days of this campaign, we have set out to build a community and form coalitions, uniting people from all walks of life and backgrounds, united by the love of country,” he said on the campus where he once studied.
“I will never give up the fight for a future. in which Americans can pursue their dreams.where America’s women have the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies and not be told what to do by the government. We will never give up the fight to protect our schools and our streets from gun violence,” said the vice president.