Jon Stewart revealed the worst prediction he made about the 2024 election
Daily Show host Jon Stewart is a notorious Trump hater.
But even Stewart knew when to admit he was wrong.
Jon Stewart revealed the worst prediction he made about the 2024 election.
Stewart admits shock at Trump winning the popular vote
The pundits and the pollsters all thought they knew what was going to happen on Election Night.
While the so-called “experts” thought Donald Trump could win the Electoral College, none even considered the possibility that Trump could win the popular vote.
But that’s exactly what happened as Donald Trump pulled off the most expansive Republican victory since Ronald Reagan in 1988 as Trump’s coattails extended to down ballot gains in the House and Senate.
Jon Stewart expressed his shock over the results on his The Weekly Show podcast where he spoke to the big sense of resignation on the Left after Trump’s victory.
“This feels different because it is a democratic victory. 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?” Stewart began.
Trump winning the Electoral College in 2016 but losing the popular vote allowed the Left to latch onto the false excuse that Trump’s win was somehow anti-Democratic.
The Left justified the resistance, the riots and the witch hunts because they claimed the majority of Americans didn’t want Trump as President.
When Trump won this time there were no riots or organized mayhem because Trump won the popular vote.
The Left had to admit that Trump won because his MAGA agenda was more popular than open borders, taxpayer funded transgender surgeries and endless foreign wars abroad.
Stewart admitted that Trump won fair and square and there was no lawfare or threat of violence that could change it.
“What measure of intimidation and underhanded [shenanigans] 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, f***. I’m not sure we have a team of lawyers for that,” Stewart added.
Stewart admits another mistake
Stewart also admits he huffed the hopeium on the idea that Kamala Harris’ vaunted ground game would pull her across the finish line in a tight race.
But Stewart said he now understands that knocking on all the doors in the world doesn’t matter if 70 percent of the people living inside think the country is on the wrong track.
“By the way, I don’t ever in my life want to hear that our vaunted ground game will put us over the top. It’s a 50/50 tossup race, we’re sure of it, but the vaunted ground game — turns out that people knocking on other people’s doesn’t get them to do what you want them to do as, I believe, vacuum and Bible salesmen have probably known for many, many centuries,” Stewart added.
“F***. us, f***. me, I was wrong, will continue to be wrong. I love to sit back and think about the autopsy and where you move from there, but I think I still feel as though I’m in that moment of vertigo to some extent,” Stewart concluded.
