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The most difficult chapter that I wrote in the book was about election night.

It was the most difficult.

And basically, I will tell you that in writing that chapter,

it was the first time my husband, Doug, and I, had ever talked about election night.

That's how traumatic that night had been for so many of us. And in writing the book, I really reflected on so much

of that moment. That night, of course, led to the next day when I went to Howard University,

the night before thinking it was going to be a victory speech, but the following day, of course,

knowing that it wouldn't be. And on my way to Howard, the day after the election, I had to reconcile

in my head that, to your point, Angela, at the end of every rally

during those 107 days, I would say when we fight and the people, right, and that was our call

and response. And I had to reconcile that with the outcome of the election.

Because it wasn't as trivial as, well, you win some, you lose some.

That's not what this was.

That's not what this is.

And it was actually on my way to Howard that I decided to write into the speech what I do

believe. And this directly answers your question. Sometimes the fight takes a while. Sometimes the fight

takes a while. That doesn't mean that we give up. It means that we are committed to knowing what we stand for and therefore what we fight for.

It means knowing on a night like tonight where we celebrate these great victories,

that we can never allow one moment, one individual, that guy in the White House or the people around

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