Television
Nov 03, 2020
Concession speeches can offer healing

On this Election Day, Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle look back at past concession speeches from presidential candidates who failed to win the White House but were graceful in defeat, showing an “extraordinary display of character in the most terrible of situations for the person involved after expending all of that energy and effort to win the presidency.” Looking forward to the results of the 2020 presidential election, Barnicle added: “I hope and pray for the sake of the country, our country, that it will be a healing statement and not a statement of division.”