Jon Stewart Winces at Kamala Harris Having To Certify Her Defeat to Trump: ‘Like Attending Your Own Funeral’
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart winced at the certification of the 2024 election results ceremony on Monday, during which Vice President Kamala Harris had to read out her own defeat as members of Congress cheered.
After touching on the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Stewart remarked, “Of course, the ultimate indignity of this January 6 is that Donald Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris, because she was the vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies… Poor baby.”
Stewart then played a video of Harris reading out the results of the 2024 election as members of Congress stood and cheered President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
“That’s gotta sting. She’s like, ‘Um, I can hear you.’ God damn,” reacted Stewart. “It’s like attending your own funeral and even the mourners are like, ‘Woohoo!’ I can’t imagine anything that would be more uncomfortable than standing there while the crowd applauds your opponent.”
The Daily Show host then played a clip of Democrats in the House cheering and applauding Harris after she read out her own losing number of votes.
“That sounded louder!” mocked Stewart. “There’s a lot of joy in that room! I think she could still win this thing!”
After officially certifying Trump as the next president of the United States on Monday, Harris said, “Well, today was obviously a very important day and it was about what should be the norm and what the American people should be able to take for granted, which is that one of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power.”
She continued, “And today I did what I have done my entire career, which is take seriously the oath that I have taken many times to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which included today performing my constitutional duties to ensure that the people of America, the voters of America, will have their votes counted, that those votes matter and that they will determine then the outcome of an election.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence praised Harris for presiding over the certification of her defeat to Trump, calling her “particularly admirable.”
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