Jon Stewart Names The Trump Strategy He Didn't See Coming In New Podcast
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The "Daily Show" host processed the Republican victory — and he never wants to hear Democrats brag about a certain campaign strategy again.
Jon Stewart said what surprised him most about President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was that it was on the up-and-up. (Watch the clip below.)
Not laughing yet?
Let the “Daily Show” comedian explain further on his “The Weekly Show” podcast, which dropped in full on Friday. You’ll get rueful chuckles out of his alternative take.
“This feels different because it is a democratic victory,” he said. “I feel like we were prepared for all scenarios and in each one of those scenarios it was: How is Donald Trump going to finagle his way back into the [White House]? How is he going to use undemocratic principles? What measure of intimidation and underhanded shenaniganery will this man use to worm his way back into the Oval Office? And it turned out he used our electoral system, as it is designed. And in that moment, I thought, ‘Well, fuck. ... 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.’”
That was Stewart’s segue into the current bane of his existence: the overhyping of the term “ground game” for door-to-door campaigning. Stewart is declaring a moratorium on it, particularly from Democratic strategists.
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