Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to address the nation on Wednesday to officially concede the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.

Harris is expected to deliver a speech to the nation and its supporters at Howard University in Washington, D.C., her alma mater, a campaign co-chair confirmed to NBC News. The timing of Harris’ speech was not immediately known. Three campaign sources tell NBC News it will be later in the day.

“We still have to count votes. We still have states that haven’t been called yet. We will continue tonight to try to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken,” said campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. “So you won’t hear from the vice president tonight. But you will hear from her tomorrow, because she will be back here tomorrow to not only address the HU family, not only to address her supporters, but also to address the nation.”

The school had served as election night headquarters, where Harris had hoped to deliver a victory speech on Tuesday evening. But as midnight approached on the East Coast and election results trickled out showing victories for Donald Trump, the cheers in the crowd quieted and the Harris campaign halted CNN’s scheduled broadcasts. Instead, the DJ blared music from the speakers to hype the crowd.

Harris’ surest path to 270 electoral votes was through Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states that Trump won in 2016 and President Joe Biden narrowly captured in 2020. But in state after state, including North Carolina and Georgia, Trump outperformed what he did in 2020 did. while Harris failed to do as well as Biden in winning the presidency four years ago.

Trump’s victory against Harris, the first woman of color to lead a major party, marks the second time he has defeated a female rival in a general election.

Harris rose to the top after Biden left the race with less than 100 days until Election Day after a disastrous debate with the Republican candidate raised questions about his age and competence. Despite an initial wave of energy and excitement surrounding her campaign, she struggled to convince disillusioned voters during a compressed timeline that she represented a break with an unpopular government.

Harris focused primarily on reproductive rights, an issue that drew women to her candidacy after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision and states began enacting restrictions on abortions. And while abortion rights measures were successful in seven states, it was not enough to give Harris victory.

Some states have added the right to abortion to their constitutions, while two states have rejected measures.

Trump, meanwhile, tried to woo male voters with a hyper-masculine approach. At the polls, Trump defeated Harris among men, while about half of women supported Harris.

Trump ultimately won over voters with grand promises to improve the economy, blocking the flow of immigrants at the southern border and his siren call to “make America great again.”

Overall, about half of Trump voters said inflation was the biggest issue factoring into their election decisions, according to evidence from the NBC News Exit Poll.

Nearly half – 45% – of all voters said they were worse off financially than they were four years ago. That was a higher level of dissatisfaction than what was recorded in exit polls in recent elections dating back to 2008, when the election took place amid the financial crisis that propelled Barack Obama to victory. And while the economy is growing, with a low unemployment rate and a booming stock market, two in three voters rated the US economy poorly, a level higher than in 2020, when the country struggled to get going during the Covid pandemic.

Harris and Trump ran very different campaigns, with Harris promising to work with people who disagreed with her, while Trump warned of “the enemy within.” In addition to abortion rights, she emphasized preserving democratic norms and addressing housing costs and other economic issues.

Harris refused to get involved in arguments with Trump when, for example, he questioned whether she had downplayed her identity as a black woman. Harris’ mother came to the United States from India, while her father is from Jamaica.

Trump characterized Harris as a socialist, even though she has a more centrist record, and insulted her intelligence and her qualifications. Harris served as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general before becoming a U.S. senator. Biden tapped her as his running mate after she ended her own campaign for president in 2020.

But as part of the Biden administration, Harris struggled with other issues — the Gaza war being the most important — alienating many traditional Democratic voters.

Trump, on the other hand, presented a dark vision of America, one that fact-checkers found full of exaggerations and inaccuracies. He called migrants “vermin” and accused them of committing violent crimes, made wild accusations that schools were helping transgender schools transition without parental consent, and repeated his false claims that he, not Biden, won the 2020 presidential election. Late in the campaign, a comedian insulted Puerto Ricans at his rally at Madison Square Garden with a “floating island of trash.”

Trump has been found guilty of illegally influencing the 2016 election by making hush payments to a porn actress. He faces federal charges over his efforts to remain in the White House after the 2020 election and state charges in Georgia.

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