'Keep on fighting': How Harris's concession speech reminds one of Clinton's 2016 address
FirstpostA day after a devastating defeat, US Vice President Kamala Harris conceded to President-elect Donald Trump with a pledge to ‘keep fighting’. The sombre speech was reminiscent of the one delivered by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, who accepted her loss to the same candidate During a sombre event at Howard University, Vice President Kamala Harris formally conceded the 2024 US presidential election to the new President-elect Donald Trump. Harris and Clinton urged women and youngsters to keep fighting One of the key issues the Harris campaign focused on this year was “women’s reproductive rights”. In 2016, Clinton said that he congratulated Trump as well and went beyond saying that she “offered to work with him on behalf of our country.” “Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power and we don’t just respect that, we cherish it,” Clinton said.