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Kamala Harris: “The sitting vice president takes up the mantle against a…”

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VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published October 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:56

But we had a sitting president who was running for reelection and three and a half months out from the election decides not to run. The sitting vice president takes up the mantle against a former president who had been running for 10 years with 107 days to go. You sound like you're pitching this to NBCUniversal. Imagine this. Jessica Chastain is the vice president. But, I mean. But think about it. Yeah, it's crazy, but it is. (03:56–04:06)

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“Extension of the child tax credit, which reduced child poverty by half in America.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 19:50-19:55
“We pushed for a $35 cap on insulin, which had a huge impact on so many people. We did it for seniors.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 30:37-30:48
“States had the ability to expand Medicaid coverage for postpartum care and that all of the states except three had not expanded it from two…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 46:25-46:42
“By the time I left as Vice President, 47 states had [expanded Medicaid postpartum care coverage].”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 46:53-46:56
“It was an election that is unprecedented in American history, in recent American history.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 03:41-03:47
“We had a sitting president who was running for reelection and three and a half months out from the election decides not to run.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 03:47-03:56
“There's just a lack of transparency around how these systems work, how government works, how politics works.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 04:51-04:58
“There are a lot of variables that go into the whole process that are not obvious to the American people.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 05:36-05:44
“There is a huge aspect of the modern campaign that is about profound and vast amounts of mis and disinformation.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 05:55-06:05
“We have not updated the process to be in the 21st century and understand how social media and technology can influence the mis and…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 06:14-06:25
“We are finding this environment that we aren't always working with the same information.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 07:58-08:03
“Part of what we've got to do is upgrade our systems of knowing where the voter and where people are.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 12:05-12:14
“In the first 24 hours of announcing the book tour, Birmingham sold out in the first 24 hours.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 12:47-12:53
“Number one issue for everybody is the cost of living.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 17:15-17:19
“Inflation is up, unemployment is up, the cost of food is up.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 17:50-17:55
“Number one concern, especially for people under the age of 40, is the cost of not only groceries, but housing.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 17:58-18:06
“Real concern about the future of work in terms of technology.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 18:06-18:11
“Impact of social media on their kids and their mental health.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 18:22-18:26
“Affordable childcare is a huge, huge issue.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 18:30-18:35
“Medicare cover home healthcare for people, especially in the sandwich generation.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 18:40-18:45
“What we did on infrastructure, what we did with the chips act incredibly important in terms of job creation.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 19:22-19:29
“We have a huge trust issue in America.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 20:38-20:42
“The algorithms around social media are designed to make people feel something.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 22:46-22:54
“There's this whole, what do they call it, the attention capital.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 23:49-23:53
“Democrats are standing firm on saying we're not going to compromise on the access to affordable health care for the American people.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 27:11-27:21
“In 24, 1/3 of the voters voted for him, one third voted for us, and one third didn't vote.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 27:37-27:43
“Democrats do come from that place of believing that healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 30:05-30:14
“The Affordable Care act was a significant reform for its time, but there is more work to be done, which includes, for example, the…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 30:27-30:38
“We wanted to do it for everyone. We couldn't get the support of Republicans in Congress.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 30:47-30:51
“My fear is that we cannot be a party that is so almost myopically focused on the guy that's currently in the White House that we are not…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 33:39-34:01
“It is part of an agenda that, I mean, they published it in with Project 2025. That thing didn't come out of thin air. It's a product of a…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 34:09-34:26
“Government should maintain its principal responsibilities around public health, public education, and public safety.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 37:48-37:57
“We have mired progress in processes that are outdated and are not grounded.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 39:24-39:32
“We have not grounded our measure of effectiveness based on metrics.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 39:39-39:44
“We think if we're just working hard and we're moving and that wheel is moving, then all is good.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 39:46-39:52
“I don't think any good public policy ends with an exclamation point.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 40:31-40:35
“AI can help us with a lot of [the bureaucratic process], for example, reviewing permits.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 43:47-43:50
“Permitting to build new housing takes forever.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 44:53-44:58
“Babies are gonna starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 49:18-49:24
“Let's talk about $20 billion going to Argentina.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 50:02-50:06
“It cost $8 billion to keep SNAP going for poor children, right?”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 50:07-50:12
“There are real shortcomings and flaws in how we're doing politics right now and how we're running campaigns.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 51:49-51:57
“You started to see an infusion of resources going into MIS and disinformation.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 52:44-52:48
“My Medicare covering home healthcare was born out of my personal experience taking care of my mother when she was dying of cancer.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 56:15-56:23
“It's going to take some real deep work which is around restoring trust in these systems and in government to actually do what we say it can…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 56:47-56:58
“Distrust can quickly lead to cynicism.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:04:23-1:04:29
“There are a fair number of people that are like, this system is just broken.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:04:58-1:05:03
“We have so many stars in our party.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:08:00-1:08:04
“Not the January 6th when I was sitting in the DNC when there was a live bomb inside of it and I was vice President elect, not that January…”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:10:24-1:10:33
“When I, as Vice President, United States, performed my constitutional duties.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:10:38-1:10:42
“We were evacuated from our house until January 19, the day before the inauguration, when we had to leave.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:11:54-1:12:03
“Well, like I said, I think it may get worse before it gets better, to be candid. But we have to be active.”
VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 1:12:55-1:13:01