Comedian Jon Stewart told former Vice President Kamala Harris on “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” Thursday that he disagreed with her claim that she lost the 2024 presidential election due to the brevity of her campaign.
Since publishing her new memoir, “107 Days,” Harris has been on a media tour recounting her failed campaign and asserting a major reason for her loss was the 107 days she had after former President Joe Biden dropped out and endorsed her on July 21, 2024. After Harris repeated the claim on his podcast, Stewart told the former vice president he believed she actually would have won had the campaign been shorter.
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“I do believe one of the biggest factors that was at play in the 107 days — we just didn’t have enough time,” Harris said. “We didn’t have enough time.”
“Or was it too much time? I mean, if you had done the election after 60 days, I think you win, honestly,” Stewart replied. “There seemed like a stagnation point. And then if you look at the lines …what would have changed?”
The New York Times’ polling showed Harris’ biggest leads were during the middle of her campaign, followed by a tightening race toward the end.
Harris then acknowledged there were other factors for her loss, particularly blaming so-called “mis- and disinformation.”
One issue Harris previously claimed was “disinformation” during the campaign was President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ads featuring her advocacy for transgender prisoners to receive sex changes.
“[H]e has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to hit me with a bunch of disinformation and misinformation on this, and he’s living in a glass house because the policies he’s speaking about in terms of those surgeries were also his policies,” Harris claimed. “And the reality of it is that also those ads relate to two people.”
Harris described how she worked “behind the scenes” to give prisoners access to the operations at taxpayer expense during a 2019 press conference. She also advocated for providing them to transgender illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense in a 2019 questionnaire from the American Civil Liberties Union during her 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that CNN resurfaced.
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