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Vice President Kamala Harris has conceded the 2024 presidential race in a brief, angry, and graceless call-to-arms in which she claimed her “loyalty to our conscience and to our God” and belief in “the dignity of all people” will drive her to continue fighting for abortion.

Harris’ Concession Speech

Harris delivered her concession speech Wednesday afternoon in her alma mater, Howard University, where she had planned to hold her victory party. About one-third of those at her watch party Tuesday night returned to “The Yard” to hear Harris admit defeat and prod them to take up four, or eight, years of hostility.

“[T]he light of America’s promise will always burn bright, as long as we never give up,” she said, her voice rising to a crescendo, “and as long as we keep fighting.”

“I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now. I get it,” she said laughing, as no one in the crowd joined her laughter. “But we must accept the results of this election. Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory,” she said, as the crowd booed.

“We owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign, the fight – the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up,” thundered Harris, as she turned to the theme that would dominate most of her 11-minute address.

Harris’ Driving Motivation: Abortion Up to Birth

“I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions and aspirations – where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body and not have their government telling them what to do,” said Harris, tying success to abortion as she received a fulsome cheer primarily from young college-aged females in the crowd. College-age single women constitute the abortion industry’s target market. “[W]omen in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions (57.2%),” and 86% of women who had an abortion were unmarried in 2020, according to data from the Biden-Harris administration.

Apparently without appreciating the contradiction latent in her beliefs, Harris also claimed to uphold “the sacred idea that every one of us, no matter who we are or where we start out, has certain fundamental rights and freedoms that must be respected and upheld.”

Harris made abortion the primary, virtually the only, issue of her 107-day campaign, saying she would not consider any protections for unborn children at any stage of development, nor any exemptions for people of faith who did not want to participate in an abortion. “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body,” candidate Harris told MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson in a rare campaign interview.

She also vowed to continue to oppose “gun violence,” which in the Democratic lexicon translates to putting restrictions on the right to bear arms, and to continue “the fight for our democracy.” Her campaign attempted to paint Donald Trump as “a unique threat to democracy.” When Anderson Cooper asked Harris “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” during a poorly received CNN town hall, Harris rapidly replied, “Yes, I do.”

Harris encouraged the crowd to begin “looking in the face of a stranger and seeing a neighbor” – a reference to continued support for illegal immigration, when her administration’s spokespeople rebranded illegal aliens as “newcomers.”

“This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build,” Harris stated. “We will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square, and we will also wage it in quieter ways.”

Harris Underperforms

Harris, who underperformed President Joe Biden’s 2020 performance in all 50 states and lost the popular vote, appeared to be casting herself as the leader of a new anti-Trump Resistance movement.

“What exactly is Kamala doing here? Trying to position herself as some sort of future Dem powerbroker,” said Saagar Enjeti, the co-host of “Breaking Points” with Krystal Ball. “Hillary could cling to the popular vote and Russiagate. She has literally nothing.”

“On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win. But here’s the thing, here’s the thing, sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win,” Harris told the crowd, including her husband, Doug Emhoff, who at times began openly weeping. “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars,” she said, holding up her hands and nodding her head as she did when describing space exploration to children.

“Many people feel like we are entering a dark time… [I]f it is [true], let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars” seemingly echoing President George H.W. Bush’s description of the United States as a “thousand points of light.”

Viewers were quick to dismiss Harris’s remarks, which Fox News host Laura Ingraham described as “a Resistance speech.”

“It felt inauthentic. It felt light,” Ed Henry told Newsmax moments after the conclusion, and featured “cheap shots there at the end.”

Pro-life observers also chided Harris for placing her faith in the power of abortion to power her campaign to victory. “Killing babies is not the W,” or win, “you thought it was, Kamala,” noted Lila Rose of Live Action.

“Page, turned. What’s been, unburdened,” said Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America Action. “Goodbye Kamala, and don’t come back.”

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Originally published at The Washington Stand. Photo via YouTube/Sky News Australia.