hey this is Jeff Mason White House correspondent for Reuters I’m at Howard University where vice president kamla Harris just delivered her concession speech to a crowd of thousands including staff and uh disappointed supporters and students uh many of them with tears in their eyes as she said uh she had called president-elect Donald Trump uh to concede the election and to offer a peaceful transition to his government Harris was upbeat uh her voice did waver a little bit as she spoke and she emphasized that the fight for her would still go on one of the lines that Harris used a lot during her campaign speeches was when we fight we win and she told the crowd and specifically the young people not to give up even if they were disappointed and she said it sometimes takes a while to win and that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t she said she would continue to work on causes that she cared about including uh abortion rights and she left on a on a hopeful note and walked out with her husband arm in- arm Doug M Hoff at the end of her remarks