The gloves are off, and the struggle for the presidency has begun in earnest. After Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump squared off for the primary time in a presidential debate, The Day by day Present’s Jon Stewart went dwell to sum up their showdown: “She crushed that.”
Stewart took pictures at each candidates after Harris and Trump’s first and, as of now, solely scheduled debate, invoking Joe Biden’s disastrous efficiency in June to name out each candidates for failing to straight reply questions. “Girls and gents, I simply wish to say after surviving the PTSD of the final presidential debate, how unbelievably refreshing it’s to return to the identical outdated ‘no one’s gonna reply any fucking questions,’” Stewart mentioned. “We’re again! America’s again!”
However quickly it was clear whom Stewart imagine prevailed within the struggle for “PaWiNevMiAzGaNc”—Stewart’s cheeky title for the swing states. (Everybody else lives in NoOneGivesAShitistan). The Day by day Present host laid into Trump for his response to a query about abortion rights, significantly Trump’s declare that “Democrats, Republicans, and all people else, and each authorized scholar” needed to overturn Roe v. Wade. Stewart referred to as Trump’s comment “insanely false,” then threw to a clip of Harris clapping again on the former president.
“I’ve talked with girls round our nation,” Harris mentioned. “You wanna speak about that is what folks needed? Pregnant girls who wish to carry a being pregnant to time period, affected by a miscarriage, being denied care in an emergency room as a result of the healthcare suppliers are afraid they could go to jail, and he or she’s bleeding out in a automobile within the car parking zone? She didn’t need that.”
“Holy shit,” Stewart responded. “She crushed that!”
Stewart continued to put into Trump, criticizing the previous president for dismissing a query about his culpability within the occasions on January 6. “You spent two months riling up your base that our nation had actually been stolen from them via fraudulent means, that you might by no means even get a whiff of in a court docket of regulation, and let—let your self simply abuse them,” Stewart mentioned. “You pressed on. You abused their belief. You confirmed up for a speech? You fucking tweeted ‘Be a part of me on Jan. 6. It is going to be wild.’ However abruptly now: ‘I used to be only a employed magician to do the bar mitzvah! I didn’t do something. I confirmed up with a hat and a rabbit after which the entire social gathering went uncontrolled!’”
Stewart additionally underlined Trump’s lack of accountability in certainly one of his most salient factors concerning the debate. “One factor will at all times be true, and it’s the high quality of the previous president I respect the least: Every time he’s cornered and compelled to face even the smallest of penalties for his personal lying and scheming, he reverts to the best refuge of scoundrels,” the host mentioned. “As Shaggy would say, ‘It wasn’t me!’”
