Jon Stewart Ends Live ‘Daily Show’ With Emotional Plea for Hope as Kamala Harris Trails: ‘This Is Not the End … We Have to Continue to Fight’
Jon Stewart concluded the live “Daily Show” election special Tuesday night by sharing an impassioned message with his audience as the presidential election results continued to roll in.
“Here’s what we know — is that we really don’t know anything, and that we’re going to come out of this election. We’re going to make all kind of pronouncements about what this country is and what this world is, and the truth is, we’re not really going to know shit,” Stewart said. “We’re going to make it seem like this is the finality of our civilization. … We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be. And I just want to point out, just as a matter of perspective, that the lessons that our pundits take away from these results, that they will pronounce with certainty, will be wrong. And we have to remember that.”
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The late-night show then played a series of clips pointing out how certain predictions of what America will look like following an election didn’t necessarily happen, such as moving towards a post-racial America after Barack Obama was elected in 2008.
“Yeah, that lasted a day!” Stewart quipped.
The show then played footage of several reporters stating that Trump would leave Washington, D.C., a “pariah” after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, and that the former President would “never be allowed to step foot in the Capitol again. Never.”
“Ever,” Stewart said after the news clips. “My point is this: Fuck!”
Trump is currently leading in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the Associated Press. On Tuesday night, he was declared the winner of North Carolina, the first of seven battleground states.
Harris‘ campaign still hopes that she will prevail in the “blue wall” states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — once all the votes are counted, giving her the victory. But in counties where all the votes had been tabulated, her margins lagged behind Joe Biden’s margins four years ago.
Stewart added on “The Daily Show,” “But this isn’t the end! I promise you, this is not the end. And we have to regroup and we have to continue to fight and continue to work day in and day out to create the better society for our children, for this world, for this country that we know is possible. It’s possible.”
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