Cedric Richmond, the co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign, gave an update to the campaign watch party at Howard University in Washington, D.C., shortly after midnight on election night.
Richmond said that Vice President Kamala Harris would not be addressing those at her watch party until tomorrow, but thanked all of her supporters for being present on Tuesday evening.
“We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken,” Richmond said.
Harris, he added, would be back tomorrow to address both her supporters and the nation, as the votes are counted in the remaining battleground states that will decide the election.
A Trump campaign spokesperson suggested the mood had shifted over at Harris’s watch party.
“Sounds like the joy has left the building,” Karoline Leavitt, a campaign spokeswoman, posted on X.
By roughly 1 a.m. on Nov. 5, Trump had secured 230 electoral votes to Harris’s 210.
He won North Carolina and Georgia and is currently leading in all of the remaining five swing states, although some have outstanding votes to tally in key areas. Nevada had only reported 4 percent of its statewide votes by this time on the morning of Nov. 6, although The New York Times presidential forecast has the Electoral College race as “likely Trump.”
Richmond is also a senior advisor to the Democratic National Committee. He previously worked as a senior adviser to the president and as the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement for President Joe Biden. Richmond also represented Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district from 2011 until 2021, which includes portions of New Orleans.
