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Put on a Happy Face
“The Daily Show” went live for election night on Tuesday with “Indecision 2024: Nothing We Can Do About It Now.” (The other shows took the night off.) As the night kept looking better for former President Donald J. Trump, Jon Stewart tried to “find some positivity and some good news” to report.
“We are obviously digging through the results to find some that you like because you were nice enough to come here, and I’m just going to come here and [expletive] all over you?” Stewart said. “No, I’m not going to do that.”
Stewart managed to find that good news in places like Maryland, where Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, defeated former Gov. Larry Hogan to keep a Senate seat. As the audience enthusiastically applauded, Stewart said, “Look at all the little glass-half-fulls out there.”
“It appears to be down to the ‘blue wall’ states that haven’t been called yet, but we do have some good news that we found here: District of Columbia is being called for Kamala Harris, ladies and gentlemen! And, to be clear, that was through voting, not insurrection.” — JON STEWART
“I have one result for you, and please understand if you’re watching at home, I’m only giving results of places I can drive to. So we do have the spinoffs for New York — Kamala Harris has won New York!” — JON STEWART
With Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania pulling out of a scheduled interview, and with little more good news to offer by the end of the show, Stewart tried to leave on a positive note.
“Here’s what we know, is that we don’t really know anything, and that we’re going to come out of this election and we are 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 [expletive], and we’re going to make it seem like this is the finality of our civilization. And this is the thing — we are 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.” — JON STEWART
“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.” — JON STEWART
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