Jon Stewart Loses It Over Trump Comeback: ‘I Was Wrong’

Vice President Kamala Harris faced a decisive defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, prompting Jon Stewart to criticize the Democratic Party’s strategy. He questioned their reliance on traditional electoral methods.

“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. “And it turned out, he used our electoral system as it is designed.”

Stewart criticized the Democratic Party’s focus on ground game strategies like door-to-door canvassing, and questioned their legal and organizational readiness against Trump’s tactics.

Stewart added, “And in that moment, I thought, well, ‘[expletive], 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 people knocking on other people’s doors doesn’t get them to do what you want them to do.”

“Uh, [expletive] us, [expletive] me. Uh, I was wrong, will continue to be wrong.”

Stewart also targeted mainstream pollsters for inaccurate predictions. While firms like Marist and Ipsos missed the mark, lesser-known pollsters such as Atlas Intel and Quantum Insights were more accurate.

“We don’t, it hasn’t been completely called yet, we don’t exactly know what all the results are going to be. Our time is running out. I do want to very quickly send a quick message to all the pollsters, the election pollsters: blow me,” Stewart said. “I don’t ever want to [expletive] hear from you again. Ever.”