Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a concession speech, where she officially conceded the 2024 US Presidential election to rival Republican nominee and President-elect Donald Trump , on the campus of Howard University in Washington. During her address, while expressing gratitude to all her supporters for putting faith in her, she motivated them to keep the hope alive, saying that the time is not to throw up themselves but to be prepared to remain engaged in their fight for democracy. Harris, who took to the stage at her alma mater in Washington before a crowd of devoted democrats, called Trump earlier in the day and congratulated him.