Kamala campaign tells staffers to 'get some sleep,' goes 'silent'

Late on Election Night, an email sent to Kamala Harris campaign staff members by campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said that they should "get some sleep" and "get ready to close out strong tomorrow."

The email stated that results continue to "trickle in from the Sun Belt states," and "we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states. And we feel good about what we’re seeing."

The email stated that Democrats have "overperformed turnout expectations in Philadelphia, and overperformed in our early vote expectations in Bucks County." Dillon said that "we expect to see higher turnout in Philadelphia than in 2020," and outside of the Pennsylvania city, "we have limited data on turnout and support right now, but what we do have is tracking with our expectations."

"In Michigan, we are awaiting a significant amount of votes to come in. The City of Detroit won’t be reported out until roughly midnight, but we have seen strong turnout throughout early vote and Election Day there. Other results in Michigan are harder to parse, since results are coming in more piece-meal than elsewhere," she added.

In Wisconsin, she said that "we know there is a significant amount of vote remaining in Dane and Milwaukee counties, and we are seeing signs of strong performance in the WOW counties, where we have partial data."

"We've been saying for weeks that this race might not be called tonight," she wrote. "Those of you who were around in 2020 know this well: It takes time for all the votes to be counted - and all the votes will be counted. That’s how our system works. What we do know is this race is not going to come into focus until the early morning hours."

"We’ll continue to keep you all updated as we get more information. This is what we’ve been built for, so let’s finish up what we have in front of us tonight, get some sleep, and get ready to close out strong tomorrow."

New York Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn wrote that while there are still a lot of votes left to be counted in these major cities, "for Harris to win she would need to outperform Biden’s numbers there in 2020, and so far she’s underperforming Biden’s results just about everywhere in the country."

Shortly before 11 pm, CNN, reporting from Harris’ watch party at Washington DC’s Howard University, said that the "operative word right now is silence, there’s not a lot being said because the Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots."