NEW YORK CITY — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman announced early Wednesday morning that they weren’t ready to concede the election to GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“They’re still counting votes. Every vote should count,” John Podesta said at around 2:00 a.m. Eastern time at the Javits Center in New York City. “Several states are too close to call. So we’re not going to have anything more to say tonight.”
“We can wait a little longer, can’t we?” he asked, explaining they wanted more time for votes in the remaining states to be counted.
Podesta then encouraged the Democratic nominee’s supporters to go home and get some sleep, adding the campaign would have “more to say” later this week.
The Associated Press announced moments before Podesta took the stage Wednesday morning that Trump had won Pennsylvania, all but securing his path to the White House.
At the time of Podesta’s remarks to Clinton supporters, Trump had already won the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
“She has done an amazing job, and she is not done yet,” Podesta told voters before ending with a simple, “Good night!”
His brief remarks gave a small spark of life to a crowd that just moments before had looked utterly defeated.
As Clinton supporters and volunteers filed out of Javits Center early Wednesday morning, a few remarked to the Washington Examiner that they were happy to hear that their nominee planned to fight on, though they were still skeptical of her electoral chances.
Minutes after Clinton’s supporters had already left the glass ceiling’d arena, she conceded the election to Donald Trump in a private phone call
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This article has been updated.
