Kamala Harris was set Wednesday to give a concession speech after her thumping loss to President-elect Trump.
The Democratic vice president is expected to speak to the nation from her alma mater of Howard University, where she had planned to address supporters on Election night before Trump forged a sweeping win.
It was not immediately known when Harris might speak or what she plans to say.
The Harris campaign was largely silent Wednesday morning after Trump claimed victory and major news organizations crowned him the the 47th president.
Campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told a somber crowd of thousands of supporters early Wednesday that Harris would address the nation on Wednesday but gave no further details.
“She will back here tomorrow to address not only the (Howard University) family, not only to address her supporters, but to address the nation,” Richmond said.
President Biden, who dropped out of the race and handed the baton to Harris, is also expected to speak, but it wasn’t clear when, NBC News reported.
The stakes for the nation are higher that usual because Democrats repeatedly framed Trump as a threat to democracy during the campaign.
It’s not known how or whether they will temper that message now that the American people have handed Trump a powerful mandate.
Harris and Democrats were mostly blindsided by the scale of Trump’s victory and Harris’ defeat.
They went into Election Day believing the race was a dead heat and even hoped Harris could engineer a significant victory.
All that came crashing down in a matter of hours on Wednesday night as Trump notched sweeping victories in states from coast to coast and forged a big lead in the national popular vote.
Harris’ historic defeat ended her dream of making history as the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to win the White House.
She launched her campaign on July 21 after Biden stepped down amid widespread questions about his age and fitness.
Harris quickly unified Democrats behind her bid and forged a modest lead in polls. But Trump hung tough in what some pundits said was a reflection of the broad unpopularity of the Biden administration’s economic record.