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Kamala Harris: “We had a sitting president who was running for reelection…”

Featuring: Kamala Harris, Democrat | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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

Published | Video Starts at 03:47

But, I mean, there are other reasons. It was an election that is unprecedented in American history, in recent American history. 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. (03:47–03:56)

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Asserts that the sitting president decided not to run three and a half months before the election.

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