We've learned that Vice President Kamala Harris has officially conceded,
officially conceded the 2024 presidential election, calling President-elect Donald Trump
to offer her congratulations.
Our senior White House correspondent, MJ Lee, is here with
me in in the studio.
Give our viewers a little bit more information.
What else are you learning?
Yeah, this was a phone call that we had been
waiting on all day.
We are told by a senior heresay that the vice
president did call the former president to concede the 2024
race.
She congratulated him on his victory.
And we are told that she talked about the importance
of the transfer of power, being peaceful, and also about
being a president for all of Americans.
Of course, as we have been talking about all day
long, the next time we expect to hear directly from
the vice president is at Howard University.
This is, of course, where she was expected to be
last night.
She ended up not appearing at her own election night
party.
This is not surprising that the vice president ended up
making this concession phone call.
We got no indications whatsoever from Democrats and the Harris
campaign that she had any plans to contest the race
in any way.
I think watching for the tone that she uses and
exactly how she talks about her loss and this moment
in American politics is going to be so significant.
There are going to be millions of Americans, many of
whom are disappointed, even despondent about the results of last
night's election, who will be looking to her for cues
on.
So what does this mean for going forward?
How do I move on?
This was an election that was so divisive, that was
so just ramped up in the rhetoric.
And I think a lot of people are wondering, well,
now that the vice president has conceded the race, what
are the cues that we can take from her on
what moving on actually looks like and how to process
the prospect of Donald Trump coming back for a second
can term at the White House?
I think it's important to note, as you and I
well know and all of our viewers know as well,
she is now doing what Trump refused to do four
years ago when he lost the presidential election.
He refused to concede.
He refused to congratulate her.
He refused all of the normal things that politicians in
America have always done when they lose an election, They
congratulate the winner and they move on.
She is doing that right now, to her credit.
Yeah.
And so much of her campaign had been about emphasizing
sort of of the norms that had been in place
for so many years in our country and our politics
and something that, as you point out, the former president
so often refused to abide by and refused to go
along with something as simple as a concession call.
You're absolutely right that that was one of the many
ways in which Donald Trump was just different.