In his long-awaited return to hosting “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart made almost no distinction between America’s two elderly presidential candidates.
was never more uncertain than in the weeks leading up to Comedy Central’s Hail Mary decision to bring backtook over from Stewart in 2015. But on the other hand, it was still without a permanent replacement for the South African comic
Stewart teased that in the coming weeks and months he would likely be using his reclaimed platform to talk about China and artificial intelligence—the two topics thaton that service—as well as “something a little lighter” like Israel and Palestine.
After briefly noting that Trump is also getting up there in age, Stewart asked, “What the fuck are we doing here, people?” While Biden has “lost a step,” he argued that Trump “regularly says things at rallies that would warrant a wellness check,” but his conclusion was that they are “similarly challenged.”
And he pushed back on the notion that voters “must silence concerns and criticisms,” making the case that that’s the job of the candidates themselves. Finally, he conceded that “Joe Biden isn’t Donald Trump,” citing the lack of criminal indictments, “but the stakes of this election don’t make Donald Trump’s opponent less subject to scrutiny.”
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