Jon Stewart compared Vice President Kamala Harris’ role in certifying the 2024 presidential election results, in which she lost to Donald Trump, to being “mocked at her own funeral.” As president of the Senate, Harris presided over the joint session of Congress on January 6, four years after the Capitol riot. The ceremony marked the final step before Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
Liberal late-night hosts, including Stewart, reacted with humor to the situation, poking fun at the irony of the vice president presiding over her own defeat. On “The Daily Show,” Stewart remarked, “Of course, the ultimate indignity of this January 6 is that Donald Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris, because she was the vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies.”
Stewart also shared a video clip of Harris reading off the electoral college votes Trump received, before cheers erupted in the chamber, and joked, “That’s gotta sting. She’s like, ‘Um, I can hear you.’ It’s like attending your own funeral and even the mourners are like, ‘Woo hoo!'”
The comedian also praised the civility of the certification ceremony, saying, “It’s amazing how smoothly our democracy works when you don’t act like a little b—h when you lose. Not naming names! Just saying.” Harris is the first vice president to oversee the congressional confirmation of her own electoral loss since Al Gore in 2001. Richard Nixon also did so in 1960.