Tuesday’s election results have rallied former surrogates of Vice President Kamala Harris to call for change.
Harris underperformed President Joe Biden in every county. The shock of her loss propelled some of her former supporters to call on the president to make some changes himself. Some waited until Harris’s concession speech late Wednesday to make their comments.
“Mr Biden, I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure,” Olympic gymnast Simone Biles wrote on X on Wednesday. “Xoxo the women in America.”
Mr Biden,
I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departurexoxo the women in america 💙
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) November 6, 2024
“Joe Biden should have stepped aside in January, not July, and then given whoever emerged as the nominee permission to talk about him however they wanted,” former presidential candidate Andrew Yang wrote.
Joe Biden should have stepped aside in January, not July, and then given whoever emerged as the nominee permission to talk about him however they wanted.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) November 6, 2024
“Let’s be honest, it was a terrible night last night. It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go,” talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said on his program Wednesday before he teared up. “And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what, it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him, too. You just don’t realize it yet.”
“Well, I’m so proud — I’m so proud of her. I don’t think people realize how hard it is to get to where she was,” MSNBC host Claire McCaskill said as she cried on her show on Wednesday. “And then to be vice president and to step into the most difficult situation in the world where she had to be completely loyal to Joe Biden and respectful of the fact that he had chosen her but yet maneuver in a situation — I mean, such political skill. It is just inspiring. People don’t understand what she had to do to get to this moment. And so, I’m just very proud of her.”
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“Our main project is to unite the working class in this country against a fascist agenda, period,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proposed in a near-hourlong rant on Instagram. “We have had an enormous setback in this election because the fascist won a lot of working-class support, which has happened before in history.”
As of Thursday morning, President-elect Donald Trump won 295 Electoral College votes in the 2024 election, with Republicans claiming the majority in the Senate. As votes are counted, the final majority of the House will appear.