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Yes, I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.

With Donald Trump due to return to the White House and another historic failure to break the

glass ceiling, how did it happen? And what does it mean for women's rights in the U.S.? I'm Malika Bilal and this is the take.

On Wednesday afternoon, Democratic candidate,

Vice President Kamala Harris, called Donald Trump, now the president-elect, to concede defeat in the 2024 U.S. election.

Later that day, she spoke to her supporters in Washington, D.C.

The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when

I say, hear me when I say, the light of America's promise will always burn bright.

It's a result that many in the country are still processing.

This was always going to be an election about who we were as a country,

not just about any one candidate.

And so, you know, half the country is not grappling with what that means.

I'm Aaron Haynes, editor at large for the 19th and host of the podcast, The Amendment.

Erin, welcome to The Take. Good morning, Malika. Good to be with you.

We are speaking Wednesday morning after a night that saw Donald Trump declare victory.

You were at Howard University in Washington, D.C. last night at the event where Kamala Harris would have given her victory speech had she won the U.S. election.

How are you in light of that, and how was that?

It was really an extraordinary end to an unprecedented election season, right?

Being on the campus of Howard University, Kamala Harris's alma mater, seeing what, you know,

an evening that began really is pretty festive, right?

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