SILENCE OF THE KAMS
Kamala Harris goes into hiding with election party canceled and team refusing to answer questions after huge Trump wins
Her route to victory narrowed quickly as the Republican vote in rural areas and suburbs delivered for Trump
KAMALA Harris has gone radio silent after Donald Trump took the stage to celebrate his victory in the 2024 presidential race.
The vice president is set to give a speech on Wednesday after she canceled her Election Night party while her team refused to answer questions as results trickled in showing Trump's major lead.
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The Republican candidate won North Carolina, the first swing state to declare on election night. His victories in Georgia and Pennsylvania, both swing states, were announced later, securing his election win.
Fox News reported Harris' press spokesperson told staff not to speak to the media as her poll numbers dwindled across the country.
A CNN reporter at the Harris campaign HQ in Washington DC said that they were getting "silence" from the Harris team.
Crowds of supporters were visibly tense as the results continued to come in at Howard University, Harris' former college.
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"The operative word right now is silence," the correspondent said.
"There's not a lot being said. The Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots in the map."
However, in an email sent out by Harris' Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon to campaign staff, she remained upbeat.
"We have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states," she said.
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"And we feel good about what we're seeing."
Associated Press reports that the Harris campaign turned off its projected broadcasts of CNN at the election night party.
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A guest on CNN said Tuesday felt "more like 2016 than 2020," with the New York Times reported that the crowd had "significantly thinned," and the mood was "seriously downcast" at Harris HQ.
The cheers in the crowd became less frequent as more results came in from the battleground states.
Harris' route to victory narrowed fast as the Republican vote in rural areas and suburbs delivered for Trump.
Some attendees began leaving the event after it was revealed Harris would not be speaking.
It comes as...
- Donald Trump took to the stage in Florida to celebrate his election as the 47th President of the United States.
- Trump promised to return the US to a 'Golden Age'.
- JD Vance said the victory is the "greatest political comeback in American history."
- Harris' team said the Vice President will speak on Wednesday.
- Trump won battleground states Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, according to the .
- Trump's team started to celebrate early with a chant when he won North Carolina.
- Republicans took control of the Senate after Ted Cruz was re-elected in Texas.
- Firefighters were forced to help recount 30,000 votes when polls faced election night chaos.
Earlier in the night, a source close to the Harris campaign warned her path to victory was very difficult.
"Her path is so narrow and she is not doing what she needs to do in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin," the source told Fox News' Senior White House Correspondent, Jacqui Heinrich.
Co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign Cedric Richmond told supporters Harris would not be speaking at Howard University until Wednesday, triggering a stampede for the exits.
CNN said that it was "not a happy crowd" at Howard, with one talking head quoting Bob Dylan saying, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
They also pointed to the similarities with 2016 when Hilary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta made a similar speech on election night and said the candidate would be speaking the following day.
Clinton did speak the next day to concede to Donald Trump.
The Republicans have also taken control of the Senate after flipping the two seats needed.
Republican Jim Justice has defeated his Democrat opponent in West Virginia, while Bernie Moreno has unseated Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
The party needs to win 51 seats for an outright majority.
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Republican incumbent Senator Deb Fischer has held her seat in Nebraska, meaning the Republicans have secured their majority in the Senate.
It isn't known who the new Senate majority leader would be, with long-time Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell stepping down.
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