Kamala Harris has reportedly reached out to Donald Trump to acknowledge his victory in the presidential election and emphasized the importance of his leadership for the benefit of “all Americans,” according to Variety.
Campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon revealed that Harris promised to work with President Biden to ensure a smooth transition of power, referencing the chaos of 2020. O’Malley Dillon also thanked the campaign team for building a “first-rate, historic Presidential campaign in basically 90 days.”
“You stared down unprecedented headwinds and obstacles that were largely out of our control,” she wrote. “We knew this would be a margin of error race, and it was.” She noted that Trump’s support didn’t increase as much in the key states, which suggested that the campaign made a difference in shaping the national mood. “That speaks to both the work you did, and the scale of the challenge we ultimately couldn’t surmount,” she wrote.
O’Malley Dillon also said that losing the race was “unfathomably painful.”
“It is hard,” she wrote. “This will take a long time to process. But the work of protecting America from the impacts of a Trump Presidency starts now.”
Trump is likely to win all seven key states, although the results in Arizona and Nevada are still pending. Additionally, Republicans have gained control of the U.S. Senate.