After conceding defeat to President-elect Donald Trump three weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris took to a virtual call to thank her supporters. In her remarks, she emphasized that the fight for freedom, opportunity, and the dignity of all people is far from over. Harris stated, "The fight that fueled our campaign, a fight for freedom and opportunity, that did not end on Nov. 5. A fight for the dignity of all people? That did not end on Nov. 5. A fight for the future, a future in which all people receive the promise of America? No. A fight that is about a fight for the ideals of our nation, the ideals that reflect the promise of America? That fight’s not over." She further added, "That fight’s still in us, and it burns strong."

Grassroots Call and Finance Committee

Immediately after holding a call with her campaign's finance committee, Harris engaged in a grassroots call. This call was attended by more than 400 donors, as informed by a source familiar. During this call, Harris briefly discussed the significant amount of money that ran her campaign but did not address the reasons for the loss. She said, "The outcome of this election, obviously, is not what we wanted. It is not what we work so hard for. But I am proud of the race we ran. And your role in this was critical. What we did in 107 days was unprecedented." Harris went on to explain that over the course of those 100-plus days, her campaign raised $1.4 billion, with a large portion coming from grassroots donors. Nearly 8 million donors contributed an average donation of about $56. She said, "You gave all that you could to support our campaign. Because of your efforts — get this — we raised an historic $1.4 billion, almost $1.5 billion from grassroots supporters alone, the most in presidential campaign history."

Campaign Spending and Voter Outreach

Campaign Chairwoman Jennifer O’Malley Dillon shed light on the campaign's spending during an episode of “Pod Save America”. She stated that during the cycle, the bulk of the campaign's spending was used to reach out to “very-hard-to-find voters,” including low-propensity and young voters. They invested across all swing states as polling reflected that each was in play. O’Malley Dillon said, "We were trying to, yes, spend more resources on digital … because we’re trying to find young people, we’re trying to find these lower-propensity voters that were tuned out to politics. We had some unique things that we had to do in this race that I think were really critical to do early and spent a lot of resources at an earlier stage than we would have to. We saw, up until the very end, that … every single state was in such a margin of error. There was nothing that told us we couldn’t play in one of these states."

Super PAC Coordination

During the podcast, O’Malley Dillon and senior campaign adviser David Plouffe accused the Trump campaign of coordinating with its super PACs, a practice that is not legal. They noted that the Democrats need to take note and do the same. Plouffe said, "We have to stop playing a different game as it relates to super PACs and the Republicans. Love our Democratic lawyers. I’m tired of it, OK? They coordinate more than we do. I think amongst themselves, I think with the presidential campaign, like I’m just sick and tired, OK? So, we cannot be at a disadvantage." O’Malley Dillon added, "We had a super PAC that was helpful, very important and necessary for the work that they did because they were the kind of central recipients of a lot of the funding on our side and they staked a strategy and a plan, and we clearly could see it, and we knew what it was [going] to spend, but we did not have the ability to have people come in with us early. And so every ounce of advertising, every ounce of carrying these strategic imperatives, of defining the vice president and trying to bring down Trump’s numbers, all sat with us as a campaign."

Post-Election Activities

Since delivering her concession speech at Howard University the day after the election, Harris has been relatively scarce. She attended the Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery a week later and made her first return to the White House a day after that. The vice president also spent the last week on vacation in Hawaii. Her former running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has remained almost entirely out of the national spotlight, resuming his duties as the governor of Minnesota. He delivered his final speech of the 2024 campaign cycle on Nov. 8 from suburban Minneapolis, joining a chorus of fellow Democratic governors who said they would protect their states. The former vice presidential nominee also said he’d work to find common ground with those who voted “for the other side” on Nov. 5. Harris and Walz remained mostly separate on the campaign trail in the roughly 15 weeks she had him as her running mate. The governor was present at Harris’ concession speech at Howard University but did not speak or interact with her. Before that, they held a joint rally in October and their last time at a rally together was in Milwaukee for programming linked to the Democratic National Convention in August.