Vice President Kamala Harris thanked supporters during a virtual call Tuesday and vowed in her first remarks that the “fight is not over” since she conceded defeat to President-elect Donald Trump three weeks ago.

“The fight that fueled our campaign, a fight for freedom and opportunity that did not end on November 5th. A fight for the dignity of all people? Which didn’t end on November 5th,” Harris said. “A fight for the future, a future in which all people receive the promise of America? No. A fight that is about a fight for the ideals of our nation, the ideals that reflect the promise of America? This fight is not over yet.”

“That fight is still within us and it burns strong,” Harris later added. “And I know this is an uncertain time. I’m clear about it. I know you are aware of this and it feels heavy. And I just have to remind you: Never let anyone. You have the same power as you did before November 5th and you have the same ability to engage and inspire. So never let anyone or circumstances take away your strength.

The grassroots call came immediately after Harris spoke on the phone with her campaign’s finance committee. According to a familiar source, more than 400 donors attended the conference call.

On the grassroots call, Harris also spoke briefly about the historic amount of money used to fund her campaign, but did not address what went wrong as she and her campaign face intense scrutiny over how they raised that money and decisions they made could lose to Trump.

“The result of this election is obviously not what we wanted. It’s not what we work so hard for,” Harris said. “But I’m proud of the race we ran. And your role in this was crucial. What we accomplished in 107 days was unprecedented.”

Harris said her campaign raised $1.4 billion over those 100-plus days, much of it from grassroots donors: “Nearly 8 million donors contributed an average donation of about $56.”

“You gave everything you could to support our election campaign. Thanks to your efforts — get this — we raised a historic $1.4 billion, nearly $1.5 billion from grassroots supporters alone, the highest total in presidential campaign history,” she said.

“Being involved can make a difference, and that remains true. And that’s one of the things that we’re just supposed to take with us – like our fight for freedom, for opportunity, for the promise of America.”, nearly 4 million first-time donors to our campaign because of the work you’ve done to help people show that they can get involved and that they’re not on the outside, they’re on the inside, that we’re all in this,” she added.

Harris was joined on both calls by her former vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – a rare appearance by the two, although Harris attended the call from San Francisco and Walz from Minnesota.

Walz also spoke at the grassroots fundraiser about supporters’ sense of loss following the election and echoed Harris’ claims that she isn’t done fighting.

“I think we all recognized the opportunity, and I know we have a little bit of a sense of loss because we saw what a real leader looks like,” Walz said.

“She delivered the best of our better angels,” he added. “She delivered a vision where we all mattered. She did it with grace and dignity and continues to do so every day. She’s still in this fight. She does it every day. She’s not done with her current job yet.” . She’s not done being there with all of you.

Harris and Walz’s comments follow post-election analysis by senior Harris campaign officials during an episode of “Pod Save America” ​​that aired Tuesday, including some reaction to the finances.

Harris’ campaign chairwoman, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, said that during the cycle, the majority of campaign spending went to reaching “very hard-to-find voters,” including low-turnout voters and young voters, while reaching all precincts States invest because polls showed everyone had a stake.

“Yes, we’ve tried to put more resources into the digital world… because we’re trying to find young people, we’re trying to find lower-propensity voters who are interested in politics,” O’Malley Dillon said.

“We had to do some unique things in this race that I think had to be done very early on and expended a lot of resources earlier than we actually needed to,” she added, noting that those resources were for Both were spent on advertising and field programming. “Right up until the end, we saw that … every single state was in such a margin of error. There was nothing that told us we couldn’t play in one of those states.”

During the podcast, O’Malley Dillon and senior campaign adviser David Plouffe accused the Trump campaign of coordinating with his super PACs, a practice that is not legal, but pointed out that Democrats are taking note and doing the same would have to do.

“We need to stop playing a different game when it comes to super PACs and Republicans. I love our Democratic lawyers. I’m tired of this, okay? They coordinate more than we do. I think among ourselves, I think with the president.” “So, I would just be sick and tired, okay? So we can’t be at a disadvantage,” Plouffe said.

“I think our side was completely unequal when it came to the ecosystem of Trump and his super PACs and ours,” O’Malley Dillon said.

“We had a super PAC that was helpful, very important and necessary to the work that they were doing because they were the kind of central recipients of a lot of the funding on our side and setting a strategy and a plan, and we were able to do that “Clearly.” See it, and we knew what we were going to spend, but we didn’t have the ability to bring people in early. And so every ounce of advertising, every ounce of executing these strategic imperatives, defining the vice president and trying to overthrow Trump’s numbers served us all as a campaign,” O’Malley Dillon added.

Harris has rarely been seen since giving her concession speech at Howard University the day after the election. A week later, she attended the Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and was seen making her first return to the White House a day later. The vice president also spent last week on vacation in Hawaii.

Walz stayed almost entirely out of the national spotlight in the month since the election and resumed his duties as governor of Minnesota.

He gave his final speech of the 2024 campaign cycle on Nov. 8 in suburban Minneapolis, joining a chorus of other Democratic governors who said they would protect their states from threats to reproductive freedoms, citizenship and other issues under the Trump administration. protect government. The former vice presidential candidate also said he would work to find common ground with many people who voted “for the other side” on Nov. 5.

Harris and Walz remained largely apart on the campaign trail during the roughly 15 weeks she had him as vice president. The governor was present at Harris’ concession speech at Howard University the evening after the election, but did not speak to her or interact with her publicly. The two previously held a joint rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 28, their first event together since late August, when they were spotted together on a bus tour in Savannah, Georgia.

The last time they were together was at a rally in Milwaukee in August for a program related to the Democratic National Convention.