Harris campaign needs 'time and space' before it can concede defeat: Report

The mood is gloomy along Democrat party lines. Kamala Harris has not spoken in public since Donald Trump won the US presidency.

While her supporters wait for her to speak on the party’s loss, people close to Harris’ campaign have sought time and space to process the defeat.

A source close to Harris’ campaign told CNN, “Please give the Harris campaign time to define their own strengths and weaknesses.”

The election defeat comes as an embarrassment to the Harris-Walz campaign especially as they voiced confidence in crossing the 270 threshold.

Gloom swiftly descended on Harris’s camp as she canceled a watch party for supporters who dreamed of seeing her elected as America’s first woman president.

“You won’t hear from the vice president tonight but you will hear from her tomorrow,” Cedric Richmond, Harris campaign co-chair, told a watch party in Washington as supporters left.

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In a further blow to Democrats, Trump’s Republican Party also seized control of the Senate, flipping two seats to overturn a narrow Democratic majority.

All eyes are on Trump now as he is expected to administer the country differently this time as opposed to his previous presidential bid which eventually made him lose the 2020 elections.

In his victory speech, Trump said, “We made history,” he said, speaking against a backdrop of Stars and Stripes flags, adding that “we are going to help our country heal.”

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He also referenced the two assassination attempts he escaped during the campaign, adding: “Many people have told me that God has spared my life for a reason.”

Polls for weeks had shown a knife-edge race between Harris and the twice-impeached Trump, who would be the oldest ever president at the time of inauguration, the first felon president and only the second in history to serve non-consecutive terms.

With inputs from agencies