Jon Stewart Ends Live ‘Daily Show’ With Emotional Plea for Hope as Kamala Harris Trails: ‘This Is Not the End … We Have to Continue to Fight’

variety.com:

Michaela Zee Jon Stewart concluded the live “Daily Show” election special Tuesday night by sharing an impassioned message to his audience as the presidential election results continue to roll in. “Here’s what we know — is that we really don’t know anything, and that we’re going to come out of this election.

We’re going to make all kind of pronouncements about what this country is and what this world is, and the truth is, we’re not really going to know shit,” Stewart said. “We’re going to make it seem like this is the finality of our civilization. … We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be.

And I just want to point out, just as a matter of perspective, that the lessons that our pundits take away from these results, that they will pronounce with certainty, will be wrong.

And we have to remember that.” The late-night show then played a series of clips pointing out how certain predictions of what America will look like following an election didn’t necessarily happen, such as moving towards a post-racial America after Barack Obama was elected in 2008. “Yeah, that lasted a day!” Stewart quipped.