Former President Donald Trump has definitively won the 2024 presidential election. Even the lachrymose corporate media have begrudgingly conceded that fact.
But it seems Vice President Kamala Harris has entered the witness relocation program.
The Democrats’ replacement candidate was missing in action on election night, when she skipped her scheduled post-election appearance at her alma mater Howard University.
Even as the writing was on the wall, as Election Day turned to the day after, Harris’ campaign chief Jen Brigid O’Malley-Dillon (the ultimate elitist-white-female-sounding name), told the dejected stragglers — by email — that Harris had left the building. Closing time. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. A campaign staffer brusquely told news film crews to shut her down and pack it up.
But O’Malley-Dillon assured supporters and the sycophantic corporate press that while Trump may have clearly won, the election was far from over.
“We’ve been saying for weeks that this race might not be called tonight. Those of you who were around in 2020 know this well: it takes time for all the votes to be counted — and all the votes will be counted. That’s how our system works,” she wrote in an email.
In other words, no concession speech. Harris supporters at the Howard election night watch party stumbled away, confused.
Even as the Democrats’ once-vaunted “blue wall” crumbled — first electorally essential Pennsylvania, then red-again swing-state Wisconsin — it was crickets from Harris and her team.
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