Vice President Kamala Harris’s attempts to “chart a new way forward,” as her doomed campaign slogan went, after her recent election loss has many crying foul. 

After Harris conceded the election to President-elect Donald Trump, she headed to Hawaii to recharge as the Democratic Party did some soul-searching about why they lost the popular vote and every battleground and saw nearly every state trend more red. While her colleagues at the Democratic National Committee concluded that the vice president’s campaign was a “$1 billion disaster” and “a damning indictment on our party brand,” Harris came back from her island vacation to say, “I am staying in the fight.”