Kamala pulled a Hillary, deflated supporters stiffed

Democratic Party déjà vu was sparked as the vice president’s “deflated” supporters were sent home in a move one MSNBC talking head suggested was meant to “conserve their emotional energy.”

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Harkening back to 2016, a decisive Election Night victory for former President Donald Trump left his rival opting out of addressing her supporters. Instead, Vice President Kamala Harris dispatched a campaign co-chair to inform a crowd that had already begun to thin out that tomorrow was another day.

“Well, I also just think it’s a shame because I remember when John Kerry did this to George W. Bush in 2004,” said Fox News host Dana Perino, calling up the previous example of a Democratic candidate appearing to be a sore loser. “And you worked so hard, and I know that they’re disappointed, but you should concede and let your opponent have their election night and let them — everybody that’s there at Trump — at Mar-a-Lago — where are they? They’re in Palm Beach.”

“Let them have their moment without anyone — like, I remember Andy Card had to come in and say, well, yes, we know we won, but we have to wait until John Kerry concedes. And we all had to traipse back in the next morning and wait. And you don’t get that moment. I don’t think it’s right,” she added.

The reaction came as the Democratic National Committee senior adviser had been sent out, prior to the call of Pennsylvania for Trump, to tell the crowd gathered at Howard University that Harris wouldn’t be making any speech until some point Wednesday.

“We still have votes to count. We still have states that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, that every voice has spoken,” he said roughly an hour before Trump was declared the victor and well after videos made the rounds showing dejected Harris supporters leaving.

“That’s not to say there’s not going to be a phone call. There could be a phone call tonight, but she’s not going to speak publicly,” said Fox News’ Bret Baier.

“If there’s a phone call,” suggested Perino, “they have to make it public and then nobody needs to hear from her. So if I were her, I would do it tonight.”

Meanwhile, during the cope-fest on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow appeared in search of a positive spin in the wake of Richmond’s announcement.

“But it sounds like the Harris campaign is sort of keeping things tight in terms of whether or not they’re gonna string people along into thinking this is gonna happen,” she suggested to Senior Contributing Editor Michelle Norris who described the evening growing “increasingly somber” and the reality that Howard University was not prepared to host Harris another day.

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After addressing the “deflated” droves leaving without a word from their preferred candidate, Maddow suggested, “Seeing Cedric Richmond come out and make those remarks at Howard, you could see how it could be different, right?” before adding, “Sending people home is also like asking people to conserve their emotional energy.”

“And it’s not possible,” added former White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki.

As Perino had mentioned the 2004 presidential election, so too were nods made to 2016 where John Podesta had told a sobbing assembly at New York City’s Jacob Javits Convention Center that there would be no remarks from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Election Night to concede her loss.

Kevin Haggerty

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