Jon Stewart calls Kamala Harris on Pete Buttigieg Veep Snub: “It’s actually a positive positive action” | Video
Jon Stewart challenged the admission of former vice-president Kamala Harris whom she transmitted Pete Buttigieg as a package in the 2024 elections because he was gay.
In the episode of Thursday of “The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart”, the host of the Podcast welcomed the president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, where the couple discussed the question of identity that Democrats have for the moment. In the middle of the conversation, they discussed the importance of authenticity and what this word really means in terms of selection of a candidate.
“There is a problem of confidence that we have at the moment between the rhetoric of our policy and the reality of our politics,” said Stewart. “Kamala Harris’ book. He does a real service. Perhaps not in the way she had wanted or that the political parties will be happy, but it exposes that the conversation we all think occurs. But we are told again and again does not happen.
He continued: “Whether you choose a running mate, look at if they are gay or Jewish or black? To the point of looking at President Biden, did you think he was strong enough to face Donald Trump in national elections?”
The decision to withdraw Biden from the presidential race created a wave of reactions on the left while the public was beginning to question their trust in the party. Harris took the mantle for the Democrats with only 107 days to campaign. The former vice-president detailed the experience in its new memories “107 days”. In the book, she shared that, even if Buttigieg was her first choice, but she transmitted it because of the growing political pressure saying: “He would have been an ideal partner – if I was a right white man”.
“We were already asking a lot of America: accepting a woman, a black woman, a black woman married to a Jewish man,” she said in the memory. “Some of me meant me, kiss, let’s do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big risk.”
Stewart applauded Harris for his franchise on the conversations having been in camera, but also stressed it as an example of “a fundamental fundamental problem of the erosion of confidence”.
Martin said that “it is there that authenticity is important”, but Stewart was quick to repel that authenticity has simply become a “fashionable word” in campaign strategy.
“But that’s the point,” continued Martin. “The reason we have lost confidence is because people do not believe that we really believe the SH-T that we sell them. We say that we tell them what they want to hear.”
“To my point,” prohibits Stewart. “In the book, when she said,” I did not go with Pete Buttigieg because he is gay. And it would be too far. And you say to yourself: “Oh my God is actually an opposite positive action.” It’s like, “What!?” “”
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