‘I’m So Proud Of Her’ MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill Breaks Down in Tears After Watching Kamala Harris Concession Speech

MSNBC analyst and former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill broke down in tears after watching Vice President Kamala Harris’s concession speech on Wednesday after having lost the election to President-elect Donald Trump.

In her speech, formally conceding the election, Harris urging Americans devastated by the result to “not despair” but to stay engaged with the process of American democracy to protect it.

As MSNBC aired the speech and talked with a reporter at the event, McCaskill could be heard sobbing in the background.

Returning to the studio, host Nicole Wallace turned to the former senator: “Claire McCaskill, are you okay?”

“I think I’m okay,” McCaskill replied.

“Tell me what you’re thinking,” the host said.

Breaking down, the former senator managed to explain: “Well, I’m so proud… I’m so proud of her.”

She continued:

I don’t think people realize how hard it is to get to where she was. As a woman getting elected DA. Is not easy, guys. People don’t trust women to be in charge of making decisions about life and death and crime and being, frankly, a supervisor in some ways over police. Her fighting through the primary thicket of California politics to become attorney general, really hard. This is really hard stuff.

For her to be selected as vice president after what I think she would tell you was a very disappointing presidential race where I think she kind of lost her footing and was listening too much to consultants frankly and wasn’t… didn’t really exude who she was. And then to be vice president.

Watch above on MSNBC.