The Daily Show founder Jon Stewart took issue with the Democratic Party’s strategy after Vice President Kamala Harris was soundly defeated both in the electoral college and the popular vote by President-elect Donald Trump.
“We were prepared for all scenarios and each one of those scenarios, it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his way back into the way? How is he going to use undemocratic principles? What, what measure of intimidation and underhanded shenaniganery [sic] will this man use to worm his way back into the Oval Office,” Stewart said in a post-election episode of his Weekly Show podcast.
“And it turned out, he used our electoral system as it is designed.”
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Stewart continued, “And in that moment, I thought, well, “f**k, I’m not sure we have a team of lawyers for that. I don’t know if we have a team of canvassers for that, which, by the way, I don’t ever in my life want to hear about our vaunted ground game will put us over the top. It’s a 50-50 toss-up race, we’re sure of it, but ‘the vaunted ground game.’ It turns out that