Now that Kamala Harris is in the “promoting a tell-all book about a failed presidential campaign” phase of her political career, the former Vice President just joined Jon Stewart for an interview – not on The Daily Show, but on Stewart’s The Weekly Show podcast.
Naturally, the subject of Joe Biden came up. Specifically, whether or not he was actually capable of serving a second term in office.
Before Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris’ candidacy in the summer of 2024, Stewart made headlines for calling out Biden’s advanced age and wildly apparent mental decline during his triumphant return to the Daily Show desk that February.
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While Stewart took a lot of shit from liberals at the time, his argument was further vindicated by Biden’s disastrous debate performance and eventual withdrawal from the race.
During his interview with Harris, Stewart asked whether or not her loyalty to Biden affected the content of her campaign. “I actually write about it extensively in the book about my feelings for the president,” Harris replied. “I care about him deeply and I did not want to pile on with all the criticism that he was facing.”
Stewart then clarified that his question referred to “governance obstacles more than the competence conversation.”
“No, I’m not talking about competence,” Harris fired back. “No, I’m not talking about competence at all. I believe he was fully competent to serve.”
A shocked Jon Stewart double-checked that he was hearing her correctly, and she re-affirmed her belief that Biden would have been competent leader in a second term. “That surprises me actually,” the Death to Smoochy star confessed.
“There’s a distinction to be made between running for president and being president,” Harris explained. “Being a candidate for President of the United States is about being in a marathon at a sprinter’s pace, having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take.”
But Stewart pushed back on the suggestion that Biden was somehow incapable of running for president, but still would have been totally fine to be commander in chief for another four years. “I think it’s a hard case to make for people that he didn’t have the stamina to run, but he had the stamina to govern,” Stewart argued. “Because I think most people view the presidency as a marathon run at a sprint with tomatoes being thrown at you, in terms of governance.”
While Harris admitted that her relationship with Biden is “complicated” these days, and he “disappointed” her at times during the campaign, she did note that he called her on her Birthday earlier this month. “We had a really great conversation and we plan on seeing each other,” she revealed.
Presumably Biden won’t be inviting Stewart to join them.
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