Did Kamala Harris admit? What the campaign has said after the election results

Kamala Harris’ campaign said there are still “votes to count” after she canceled her post-conviction speech at Howard University.

“We still have votes to count. We still have states that haven’t been called yet. We’re going to continue through the night to fight to make sure every vote is counted, that every vote has been counted,” Kamala Harris’ campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said. “So you’re not hearing from the vice president tonight, but you’re hearing from her tomorrow.”

Harris, who has not conceded the election, was expected to host her election night party at Howard University in Washington, DC, a historically black college where she was an undergraduate.

It comes after The Associated Press has declared the crucial swing states of North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania for Donald Trump. Trump currently has 267 Electoral College votes to Harris’ 224.

Wins for Trump in the swing states mean that Harris is highly unlikely to win the election unless she wins all four swing states still up for grabs, as well as four votes from other states that have yet to be declared.

That looks unlikely, however, with Trump currently polling ahead of Harris in all four of the undeclared swing states, according to CNN, at 51 percent in Nevada and Wisconsin, 52 percent in Michigan and 50 percent in Arizona. He is also likely to win Alaska by a landslide, giving him three electoral votes, meaning Harris faces almost certain defeat. Trump won 51 percent of the vote in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia, with about 97 percent of the vote counted.

Amid what looks like a near-certain victory for Trump, the former president took to the stage in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday morning to address his supporters.

“This is a great victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” he said. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”

“It is a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this,” he added. “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.”

Although Trump has declared victory, he has yet to achieve the official required number of Electoral College votes.

Meanwhile, exit polls suggest Trump could be on track to win the popular vote, with the former president currently at 51 percent of the vote to Harris’ 47 percent, according to CNN.

That would mark the opposite of what polls had suggested would happen in this election, with prognosticator Nate Silver putting Harris’ chances of winning the popular vote at over 70 percent. Projections for the Electoral College were less consistent, however, with Harris holding a slight advantage through August and September before her odds fell sharply in early October as Trump gained ground in key battleground states.

From that point on, the race tightened significantly, with Trump showing small leads in North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, while Harris maintained narrow leads in Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Since 1998, polls in US presidential, House, Senate and gubernatorial races have typically missed the final vote margin by about 6 points on average, according to FiveThirtyEight’s analysis.

For example, polls in 2020 showed President Joe Biden with a strong lead over then-President Trump. Right before the election, Biden led by 8.4 points in FiveThirtyEight’s average. He ultimately won the popular vote by less than 4.5 points — just enough for an Electoral College victory.

Similarly, in 2016 FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary Clinton a 71 percent chance of winning, but she ultimately lost the Electoral College despite winning the popular vote.

Scott Keeter, senior fellow at the Pew Research Center, said earlier Newsweek that polls in 2020 and 2016 were inaccurate because Trump supporters opt out of surveys due to distrust of institutions like the mainstream media and polling organizations.