Jon Stewart on Why The GOP Doesn't Know What To Do With Kamala Harris Replacing Biden | Pete Buttigieg
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We're back! Boom! The Daily Show! My name is John Short. Um... Wait, look at that. Oh, please, this is so good. Um... We just got back, and we've been gone like a... Like a week. It's been a week. Or a decade. Or... What the f***? Like... Oh, my God! So much! So much has happened in that week. In fact...

I believe perhaps it's best to describe what's happened through a short one-man black box play, one that I truly hope will be Tony eligible. Can I get a little, give me a little like shtetl music. Oh, I am a Democrat. It's so sad, so cold, so hungry. The world is dark.

The world and the future, she's bleeding. The president's ditch has gotten even deeper. There's no path to victory. The worst nightmare kind of scenario. It's a doom loop. We are trapped in a doom loop. That's the worst kind of loop. Why couldn't it have been one of those loops made of fruit? But alas, my bowl is empty.

Condemned to a life of misery and minority status in key subcommittees. Nothing will ever change our sad fate. Breaking news, President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race. Say that again. But who will guide us out of the darkness? Who will take us there to the promised land? I want the world, not the land.

Tonight, breaking news, Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee. A political earthquake. There is a new pep in everybody's step. In the span of a week, Democrats have gone from the despair of a certain Trump presidency to the joy of a statistical time. Which, which, right now feels like

Already, the prospect of her candidacy has injected enthusiasm and energy. She's received a tsunami of grassroots support and cash. She's raised a staggering $200 million since President Biden dropped out. It's a Zoom world record. More than 100,000 white women mobilized for Vice President Kamala Harris. 100,000 white women! That is a giant group of white women!

I believe the scientific term is actually a goop of women. That is called a goop of women. $200 million they've raised. A united, enthusiastic Democratic Party. A huge reversal in one week. And they said it

Joe Biden is going to be the nominee. This is fantasy stuff. This is good for TV, but Biden's not going anywhere. This is not an Aaron Sorkin, you know, West Wing episode here. This is real life. Joe Biden is our nominee, and he will be our nominee. We literally have three choices as Democrats. Either you vote for Donald Trump, you vote for Joe Biden, or you stay on the couch. I think we know which one of those options J.D. Vance would opt for.

Even I don't feel good about that joke. What do I know? A simple pink pony grandpa. Let me explain very quickly. That's barely a reference to being a Chapel Roan fan, which I totally am. Somebody in the audience. We have young people come here. But listen, man, the pundits all said it couldn't happen, but it did happen. And the Republicans are not very happy about it.

They just steamrolled democracy. The Democrats are trying to hijack democracy. The ultimate election interference. This was a coup inside the Democratic Party. A coup d'etat. A bloodless coup. But if I thought I had this thing in the bag, you were going to be going up against old Joe Biden, and then they pull this, I'd be like, Raph, Raph, open your eyes! How can you not see they're cooing? They're cooing! Raph!

And by the way, I love that guy's disappointment in the phrase "bloodless coup." This is a-- this is a bloodless coup. What kind of fun is that? At least we brought bear spray and nunchucks. But you know what? I do understand that they're upset. It makes sense. So how about we do this? Out of fairness, I'm a fair person. You can replace your old guy, too. That's fine. Boom! Boom! Even Steve.

By the way, speaking of your old guy, he responded to the change to Harris in the Trumpiest way possible. Donald Trump posted this on his true social account, quote, so we are forced to spend time and money on fighting crooked Joe Biden. Now we have to start all over again. Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud? Do you have any idea?

How much money on Let's Go Brandon ear bandages I've spent? Made in America via Bangladesh. I'm like Trump is to Jerry Lewis. Well, what's done is done. You're going to have to shift gears, recalibrate. You've had Cookie Joe and Sleepy Joe on speed dial. You're going to need a new line of attack. She doesn't like Jewish people. Join the club. We're getting crushed out there.

I'm not even sure how much we like ourselves. It's not like the old Seinfeld days when we were riding high, you know, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. You could get a bagel in Iowa. Yeah, give me a schmear in Ames, Iowa. Of course, that attack may ring hollow, seeing as Kamala Harris' husband is, let me check my notes, Jewish!

Is there anything else that could denigrate all of Kamala Harris's accomplishments by suggesting it's merely the power of the Jezebel? It is relevant when a young candidate tries to sleep her way into politics and into power. And that is what it appears Kamala Harris did. She never earned or won anything.

She was legitimately handed her original post in California state government because she was sleeping with Willie Brown. And then he backed her in her race for San Francisco D.A. OK, Squeaks, listen, I don't know, guys, you're being awfully subtle here. Isn't there a grosser way you can say that? Kamala Harris, she's the original Hawk to a girl. That's the way she got where she is.

That's what I'm talking about! That's the kind of substantive and elevated take from a guy who looks like he's one Mike's Hard Lemonade away from getting in a fight at his sister's wedding. You little, little tough to hair. You're not fooling anybody, Baldy! So sexist saying Kamala Harris slept her way to the top. Joe Biden and Donald Trump literally slept their way to the top. What about it?

Does anybody have a substantive critique? Her record is extraordinarily radical. Let me say at the outset, Kamala can't have my guns, she can't have my gasoline engine, and she sure as hell can't have my steaks and cheeseburgers. Sir, I don't want to be rude, but it does appear that you could at least share some of your cheeseburgers. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Looks like you'll still be okay, is that right? Mmm. Tubs. Mmm. Good to see you have mutton chops in case you get hungry. Mmm. But is Harris really that radical? If you combine Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, you get Kamala Harris. If you combine Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, you get Kamala Harris? That can't be... You know what? There is an app that actually does that. Can we...

Neil Patrick Harris! Oh my God! It's Neil Patrick Harris!

Come on, guys. Nobody believes Kamala Harris is the second coming of Karl Marx. And even when they get substantive policy critiques, they undercut them immediately. Even when she was in California, she was very soft on crime. The same Kamala Harris, who as a California prosecutor and attorney general, put people in prison to use them as cheap labor. She's too soft on crime! She's too tough on crime! People, we... You're flailing!

It's one final thing that nobody talks about. She's hated by people who work for her. Oh my f***. Are you kidding me? Everybody that worked for Kamala quit. A very aggressive, angry, bullying boss. She's not a nice person to work with. She's a terrible boss. Your candidate's Donald Trump.

His catchphrase is literally, you're fired. He's the Anna Wintour of authoritarian wannabes. Donald Trump hired 44 cabinet members. 75% of them want nothing to do with the guy. His secretary of state called him a f***ing moron. His chief of staff said he's the most flawed person I've ever met. You know why he needs a new vice presidential running mate? I'll tell you what, he tried to get the last one killed.

They're flailing. You know what? If you want something done, do it yourself. Donald, you're going to have to hit Kamala with one of your magic nicknames. Laughing Kamala, L-A-F-F-I-N apostrophe. Laughing. So now we have a new victim to defeat. Lion Kamala Harris. Lion, L-Y-I-N apostrophe. You know what? I hate to say it, guys, but you tried. You gave it your best. I kind of think you're going to have to go back to your classics.

It's worked for you in the past. It's your comfort zone. I think you're going to have to play the hits. I think she was a DEI hire. 100%. She was a DEI hire. She would be the queen of DEI if she were elected. She is DEI. I think that this whole DEI token hire of Kamala Harris has already been exposed. This woman, this disaster whose only qualification was having a vagina and the right skin color. So I guess she's black.

Or is she? She's not African-American. Her mother's from India. Her father's from Jamaica. She grew up in Canada and she married a white Jewish guy. So she has no common experiences with black Americans. She's not one of you. She's not even married to one of you. She's also about as black as Rachel Dozel. This is how desperate they are. Is she black? Is she Indian? Nobody knows. Racist? In one person?

Now I've seen everything. I heard she sent a DNA to 23andMe and it broke the... I don't know what to do. Goodness gracious. If these people ever saw a pizza hat slash Taco Bell, they'd lose their... What is this, a DEI restaurant? For more on the Republican response to Kamala Harris, we go live to Washington, D.C. with senior political correspondent Josh Johnson. Josh, thank you so much. Thanks for joining us.

You've been down in D.C. Everything is flying around. What is the latest, Josh? This is a tough one for them, John. Kamala Harris is a confusing candidate for Republicans. They feel she's too young to be president, but too old to be a woman. But they do have some very promising areas of attack. She's too short.

She's bad at video games, all of them, all right? Grand Theft Auto, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Super Mario Party, Mario Party Superstars, Grand Theft Mario Party. Oh, oh, and she laughs funny. You know, the laugh of a drunk girl who lost her purse and then realized she actually was wearing her purse the whole time. America hates that kind of laugh. It's not that funny, Stacey.

Where do you think the attacks are going to land? Well, as you mentioned earlier, I really think the winner is going to be... She's black! Sorry for yelling. That's how it was said to me. Just yelled, she's black! No, no. They have all kinds of attacks ready, alright? I'm seeing black, black, black woman. I got this one, American African, which sounds scary when you flip it like that.

Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. I can see that. That's a tough one. Oh, oh, oh. They were looking at me when they said this one. Like you, but lady. Also got some more black, blackity black. Urban doesn't crack. At least they know. Oh, I can't even say this one. Oh, my Lord.

From Kenya. I think that one is left over from the last time someone was, you know. Black. You said it, not me. Black on every page? It's most of the words. It's tough. Black to you, John. Thanks, John. John Johnson, everybody. When we come back with the mayor of Peabody Jam. Don't go away.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight, he is the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ran for president in 2020. Please welcome to the program, Pete Buttigieg. I'm going to tell you something about this. So, you're going crazy. Let me tell you a story. Um...

That is all the time we have. I got to tell you, so I was coming out. I come out earlier just to talk to the audience, have some words. There was a lovely woman in the audience. She said she stood up and she said, is the future Madam President here tonight?

And I said, I'm not sure what you're saying. She said, Kamala Harris. And I said, oh, you thought Kamala Harris is here tonight. And she's not. And there was a sadness that crept over her face. But you just healed it. You just healed the sadness. I'm glad I could be helpful. I'm glad I could be helpful.

I swear to God, though, you are, for liberals, watching you go on Fox News and discuss things in a rational manner. It is for liberals. It's like when Gosling hosts SNL. It's just that. It's just like, oh, he's so good at this. Right.

Is that an uncomfortable thing to do? Is it something you enjoy? A little bit. I mean, I never thought that Fox News would be like a specialty of mine. Yes. It's not something I watched a ton of before I found myself going on it. You ain't missing much, sir. You ain't missing much. You know, what I found is it is important to reach people where they are. And even if I'm skeptical sometimes that the

is covering things in good faith. I know lots of people who are tuning in in good faith. And so in the same way that, you know, back when I was running for president, I kind of specialized in counties that had voted for Obama and then for Trump. That's how I won Iowa, really, was partly through that kind of outreach and finding people who are not

hardcore partisans, but do usually get their information in a very certain and I would argue very narrow way. I have a chance to, as long as they'll have me on, I have a chance to pop that, you know, puncture that bubble. Do you find anecdotal feedback that it's heard other than, you know, a clip going viral or something like that? Will you be at home in Michigan? Will you be somewhere and someone that you know is more red partisan will say to you, hey, I caught you on...

Yeah, I mean, literally happened to me today. And to be clear, it's not like somebody says, you know, I was a rock-ribbed Republican and I saw your four-minute Fox News segment and I've seen the light and now I'm a Democrat. But, you know, I do hear from people I know who are more conservative or probably don't usually vote the way I do. But they'll say, you know, I saw the way you laid things out. I think, you know, I understand where you're coming from or I think the way you laid it out could make sense. Right. You know, I'm under no illusion that you can just, you know, on the strength of a witty argument or a

Man, are you preaching to him? Yep, you're right. Doesn't do jack. But I get it. I guess the conversation is right. What is the point of having a conversation if you're not speaking to people who don't already agree with you? Son of a bitch. That's so smart. And it's exactly the way it should be. Are you right now, by the way?

unbelievably tumultuous, I mean, week, like eight days. Has it felt that way inside the administration? How did you find out about it? Is it

In that situation, does the president call everybody together and go, hey, everybody, got some news? Like, how does that, how does it work? No, I mean, that would be a very long list of everybody to, you know, to talk to. So I found out the way everybody did. I was actually on a plane, fittingly enough, taxiing in, and Chasten was sitting next to me, checking Twitter, and saw the post. And so we found out the same way everybody else did. And yeah, ever since, I think a lot of us, you know, our heads are spinning. So much has changed. But...

Part of what's changed is this incredible energy that we have now. You know, I was home over the weekend, stopped by the field office for the now Harris campaign next to where we live. Did they literally just take the poster down and slap another one up there? Is that like it's the same office with the same people? Pretty much. And that's OK, because it's it's because it's the same values and it's the same effort. Yeah, no, I mean, they literally went like.

I will say they got those yard signs ready really quick. Yeah, it's not. But there's got to be a kink goes almost everywhere. You know, obviously, you know, she represents a lot of continuity with the values of the Biden-Harris campaign and the Biden-Harris administration, but also a different messenger, a different style, a different approach. And people are clearly really fired up and excited about it. I know I am. Do you think is it this is such a strange question? And I don't know if you've spoken to him or not, but like, do you think

President Biden sees that and is like, "Oh, fine." Like, or is he -- Like, does that -- I would imagine it would hurt your feelings. If that were me, it would hurt my feelings. -I don't know. I think part of what he achieved with what's a really extraordinary thing -- I think even now we might be underselling how world-historically rare it is to be literally the most powerful person in the world... -And just be like, "Yeah, it's fine." -...and lay power aside, right, just 'cause it's the right thing to do. -Right.

But in doing so, I also think he's consolidated his own standing as one of America's great presidents. And I also think he's very conscious that that means springing through the tape and continuing to deliver for the next six months. What are the narrative about like they bullied him? He was bullied. Is that even could that can you do that to a president? Can you be like, get out? And then the president be like, stop you.

No, I mean, that's the thing, right? It was his call and he made that call. And people may say those delegates were his. Right. Yeah. I mean, and people may second guess, you know, the manner of it or the timing of it. But at the end of the day, it was his choice. He made that choice. And that must have been an extraordinarily difficult choice, but also the right choice.

Now, are you being so now it's she is on a vice presidential search. Are you being vetted right now? Would you know if you're being vetted right now when they vet you? Do you feel it? Is it a physical sensation? You're being vetted. You know. Yeah. You know. You know when you're being vetted. Yeah. I'm going to vet you right now. Please don't. Please don't. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

What does it require? Is there literally a physical exam that goes along with being vetted? Not that I'm aware of. But, I mean, look, all I should say about it is that she is going to make this decision. She's got a process to help her make the decision. Oh, my God, you're being vetted. Everything you say, even that, is being vetted. Probably. It's so uncomfortable because don't aren't you.

Do you think the vetting process is different? To be in the administration, you probably have to go through a process. Yeah. In fact, I was thinking about it because I was vetted to be part of the cabinet. And then pretty soon after that, Chastin and I were going through the process of adoption. And, you know, it was kind of the same thing, but with a social worker instead of a white shoe law firm. Really, I mean, there's a lot of, you know, the law firm is like, OK, now, you know, tell me about your finances.

And, you know, a year or two later, there's a social worker who's like, tell me about your finances. And you go through step by step. And one of the things you think about is the journey that an adoptive, that adoptive parents go through. Right. It does involve that kind of, you feel like you're under a microscope. It's that, the bar of adoption is that high. It's similar to like getting a high level security clearance position in government. Yeah. I mean, not the exact same, obviously, but, you know, a surprising amount of overlap. Right. Were there questions? Yes.

Was there certain parts of the vetting process for government where you were like, you're going to let me get away with that? Like, was there anything like, you know what I mean? If there was not, but if there was, would I describe it on television? Of course. This is cable. See, that's my problem is...

The vetting process, because being vetted to be a road comic is, the bar is, don't die. But like for public service, I've got pictures in a shoebox that would disqualify me for working for the post office. Like it's, it's bad. But you, you know, you were in the military, did they, like pretty clean. Yeah, I think so, yeah. I don't want to say anything, but it sounded to me right there like you're hiding something. Thanks a lot.

When will they tell you, do they come to you afterwards and say, hey, we're about to announce it, and you made it to the quarterfinals, and you were great, but do they, like, will they announce that, or do you find out, like, on Twitter, like everybody else? I don't know. What I know is that there's a flying formation. You're going to talk values again, aren't you?

Yeah, probably. I probably should. No, look, what I'll say is no matter what the flying formation is going to be, I'm really excited to be part of this. I'm excited to be part of this campaign.

because I really believe in it. And I feel that energy. I felt it on the ground over the weekend. You've been back out on the road since this happened? Yeah, yeah. I kicked off a canvas in the Traverse City field office, and it felt amazing. It was an energy I hadn't felt since I was campaigning in Michigan in 2022 for the midterms, which also went really well. So, you know, but...

As you memorably pointed out, three or four months is forever. So a lot of things are going to happen. There's going to be a lot of ups and downs. It's going to be a roller coaster. But I think we're ready for that, largely because we're

I think now we're kind of, we have a renewed awareness, not just of what we're against, but what we're for. Right. And I think that's really important. Well, the message before was literally, it doesn't matter what you see. That's worse. Which is not, you know, it's not so compelling. You know what I mean? And people were thirsty. And I don't say that...

I don't see that to be disrespectful. It just seemed like what people were experiencing. Yeah, and I think, look, there is a temptation to have our message be entirely about Donald Trump because we're so disturbed by what his return would mean. And maybe a little more also about J.D. Vance because of how odd he's turned out to be. I gotta tell you, boy.

Boy, did that dude drop a turd on launch. I've never seen anything like that, where they were like, one day they were like, the heir to the MAGA fortune and the MAGA, the Prince JD shall march. And he comes out and he's like, I hate cat ladies. No, it's rough. And, you know, just like systematically insulted so many people. It's not just the kind of things he said, but the policy ideas behind them. Like he has this idea that you should get extra votes if you have kids. Yeah.

Extra votes? Yeah, he suggested that you should have extra votes if you're a parent. Really? I think there's lots of things... You don't even get that in your own house. I'm a parent. You don't get anything. It's true. I'm starting to find that. I mean, ours are not yet three, but...

And it's rooted in this strange idea that it's not just he doesn't just say that being a parent gives you, you know, an important role as a citizen, which I agree with, that it gives you unique perspective on the future. It's that not being a parent makes you less like I think that's absolutely how I feel. He said he said people who don't have children. This is a quote, have no physical commitment to the future of this country.

Wow. And I just think about how, like, no physical commitment to the future. Like, when I was deployed to Afghanistan, I didn't have kids back then. Right. But I will tell you, especially when there was a rocket attack going on, my commitment to this country felt pretty physical. Can I tell you something? This is why...

This is why people love seeing you go on shows, because that framing is perfect. Because it does, it points to that idea that who are you to tell what's in someone else's heart about what they feel about the future or what they feel about this country? And the sacrifices that you made, as you said, without having had children, were tremendous. So it's shocking. And I also have to address this sort of strange, I think, false populism on the right, economic populism.

The Roberts Court has been the least worker-friendly court in God knows how long. Their policies, you know, they complain about globalization hurting workers. And I do think that's a correct formulation. I think we didn't do enough work.

in that moment. But I don't think they realize what right-to-work states, you know, what they think Mexico is to the United States, Texas is to New York. Like, it's a race to the bottom. And there's all kinds of studies that show right-to-work states depress wages. They depress worker safety. They do all kinds of terrible... So what is this economic populism based on? Well, it's not based on policy. It's just body language. It's this idea that if you just...

act like you are populist, that that counts. Look, I'm under no illusions that elections are just a policy exercise. A lot of it is vibes. A lot of it is style. But if your party has been systematically against unions, against a higher minimum wage, against things like paid family leave, against overtime, then just because you found Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock and put them on stage doesn't make you a friend of the working man, right?

Like the substance actually matters. Well, I would only say it does make you a friend of the working man in the 80s. So I think that was helpful. Do you, in terms of that, I wonder, you know, ever since Reagan, and I think Democratic administrations have gone along with it too much as well.

The shift from a labor economy to an investment economy and the penalties that labor faces versus, you know, there's no question that equities and the investment market have done unbelievably well since, you know, the 80s. Right. And that labor has, you know, wallowed much further behind. Yeah. It's a shareholder economy. Why is it so difficult to get workers? Forget about even unions. Right.

a place at the table at the companies, if these companies have done so well for their shareholders, why can't the workers

share in that prosperity in the same way as why can't they be shareholders? Yeah, I think that's right. Although I will say one thing that unions are increasingly doing is getting employees a chance to participate in that profit sharing for exactly that reason and getting that seat at the table. But that's exactly why it matters, not just kind of what your style or your affect is, but what you're actually proposing to do. And I would say part of what we can be really proud of

from the Biden-Harris years, and I think in future, a future Harris administration too, is a real focus on returning a little more to a worker-led economy or worker-oriented economy that includes... Rebalancing. Yes, you know, the financialization, a lot of those trends have been very powerful. Yeah. The role of the information economy, which has merged in some ways with manufacturing because, you know, even a...

A car is increasingly, you know, part car, part computer. But it's still really important that we make the cars here. And that's part of what we've been working to make happen. There was a manufacturing recession during Trump, even before COVID. There was a manufacturing boom now. You have to go back decades to find anything like this much investment in terms of the amount of places around the country right now where factories are being built. There was just a guy, it was, I think it was the mayor, it was a city in Arizona. Might have been Mesa.

wrote an op-ed almost saying exactly that. He's a Republican, and he's in a border town, and he was saying, I'm supporting Harris because of the Investment Act of Infrastructure, because of the James Act, because of what they've tried to do. And maybe that is the key, is to get that out in those sorts of places where people might not normally hear. Yeah, because I remember being a mayor in the industrial Midwest, and actually the one time that Trump fooled me, I'll admit it,

something he said he would do that I believed him was when he said he was going to pass this big infrastructure law. I thought he would do it because it's good politically and why not? And of course, he failed to do it. Joe Biden did, by the way, with a lot of involvement from Kamala Harris. And now it's something that I wish back when I was mayor that we had that kind of wind at our back as a city. It's terribly hard. You know, it's funny. I went to his college. I thought for sure. I saw the ad. And...

And I went to it, and it turned out I'm not a doctor. But I'll say this. I think the really important thing to watch with him isn't the promises that he broke. Like, yeah, he broke the promise about infrastructure. He broke the promise about 6% growth. He even broke the promise he made to that January 6 mob when he said he was going to be right there with them when they marched on the Capitol. Sure.

But actually, the promises he kept are the really interesting ones, 'cause I think they tell you what the next Trump administration, if he got one, would be like. And he really kept two. One was the promise he made to the Christian right to eliminate the right to choose. -Sure. -And the other was the promise he made to corporate America to cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Those are the promises he followed through on. That's what he's about, Hulk Hogan or not. -I think every... That's great. He believes that, from now on,

Every political conversation in this country has to end with Hulk Hogan or not. Pete Buttigieg, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. Texting between two different kinds of phones makes photos blurry, likes messy, and security risky. Not just that, it also makes sharing photos or even simply video calling, editing messages, or leaving a group nearly impossible.

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I, as an American, find it offensive that a nominee is being coronated like Kamala. What makes Kamala Harris a remarkable figure? We all owe Kamala a little bit of respect. Kamala or Kamala, Kamala, Mala, Mala, I don't know. Kamala Harris, you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala. I couldn't care less if I mispronounce it or not, I couldn't care less.

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