Special envoy to Washington

A strange calm, considering the extreme polarization that marked the end of the campaign, hangs over the crowd back at Washington’s Howard University to hear Kamala Harris admit defeat. The evening before, shortly before one o’clock in the morning, thousands of Democratic students, activists and supporters had left the campus in a state of anxiety. A party official had just told them that the candidate would not speak until she had a clearer picture of the situation in all the swing states. On Wednesday afternoon, some of them returned to show their support for the defeated candidate. Dressed in a black suit, she called on her supporters to to “accept the result of these elections”.. “Earlier todayshe added, I spoke with the president-elect and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team during the transition…