An announcement by Cedric Richmond, co-chair of United States Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign that she would not be speaking at an Election Night Event at Howard University in Washington D.C. that went over into Wednesday morning, left thousands of supporters disappointed. The supporters and hundreds of journalists from all across the world waited for hours until the announcement came that she would not be speaking. Moments before that announcement dozens of supporters were seen leaving the event.
Harris, the Democratic Candidate, is an alumna of Howard University. Harris was a no show at the event as ballot counts in several states showed Republican former president Donald Trump in the lead in the race to 270 electoral college votes needed become president elect.
Among the people at the event was Jamaican-American Nicholas Stewart who from early in the night said he accepted that the election could go either way to the left or to the right.
"I mean the reality is it could g...
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