US election: Harris to deliver concession speech

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver a concession speech Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States.

Here’s what to know:

Harris’ concession speech: The vice president will speak Wednesday at 4 p.m. EST at her alma mater, Howard University, her office announced.

With a win in Wisconsin early Wednesday, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.

Harris’ campaign chair acknowledged the Democrat’s “unfathomably painful” loss in a memo to staff, but told the operatives who worked for the vice president that “the work of protecting America from the impacts of a Trump Presidency starts now.”

Jen O’Malley Dillon’s memo to staff acknowledged the pain of the moment for Democrats but took a hopeful tone about the work these staffers have done.

“Losing is unfathomably painful. It is hard. This will take a long time to process,” she wrote. “But the work of protecting America from the impacts of a Trump Presidency starts now.”

O’Malley Dillon said Harris “isn’t finished in this fight” and said the staffers who worked for the vice president are “going to be leaders in this collective mission.”

“View this as the beginning, not the end” she concluded. “It will be hard work. But as the boss says: hard work is good work.”