>> announcer: live from chicago! "the daily show" 2024! the democratic national

convention! with your host jon stewart! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> jon: hey! what's up! welcome to "the daily show"! i am jon stewart. and once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome! [cheers and applause] we love you too. we are live right now the democratic convention is wrapping up. maybe hours from here.

we don't know where it is. what a night for kamala harris, by the way, the anticipation was high, and not just for kamala harris, speculation was running wild today. there would be a surprise guest. and boy, did they deliver. >> please welcome michigan representative elissa slotkin! >> jon: oh! ♪♪ freedom, freedom ♪♪ i'm in the slothive! [laughter] you thought it was beyonce. you thought beyonce was coming out, but it was slotkin all along! everyone knew. but tonight was the final night for the dnc. they did it all. they spoke in support of curbing gun violence, investing

in our schools, fighting climate change, and, uh, upside-down drumming. [laughter] a remarkable story. born conjoined, but they didn't let that stop them. [laughter] but it was kamala's night, and her opportunity -- [cheers and applause] she is not here either. no beyonce, no kamala. [laughter] hey! get your [bleep] freedom! [cheers and applause]

it was kamala's night. and it was her opportunity to be introduced as a presidential candidate to america. >> growing up we moved a lot. i will always remember the big mayflower truck packed with all of our belongings ready to go. two illinois, to wisconsin. [cheers and applause] >> jon: name swing states! say that you moved to swing states. they move to arizona, georgia, just make it up. but this is great -- we finally get to meet communist kamala, the radical we've heard so much about. >> i believe everyone has a right to safety, to dignity, and to justice. a harm against anyone of us is a harm against all of us!

>> jon: okay-- stalin! >> this is one of the reasons i became a prosecutor. to protect people. >> jon: das vedanya, comrade? >> i stood up for women and children against predators who abuse them. i fought against the cartels trafficking guns and human beings, who threaten to the security of our border and the safety of our community, and i will tell you, these fights were not easy. >> jon: why aren't you doing the thing that they told us you were going to do. with the hammer and the sickle and the bandoleros with the jello shots in them,

why are you doing this? >> on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, i accept your nomination to be president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> jon: by the way... how funny would it have been if at the end she was like, but seriously though "not for me."

[laughter] this has all been great, but i don't think i'm going to do it. if i was donald trump right now, i would just be tweeting nonsensical shit to distract from the fact that she doesn't faintly resemble the caricature that's been painted. by the way, that is what he was doing. these are his real tweets... [laughter] in all caps. in all caps... "where is hunter." i swear to god, the guy running for president on the republican ticket has morphed into a poor man's cat turd. of course, an important part of tonight was familiarizing people with the democratic nominee's biography. a hallowed walk through the trials and tribulations that formed the ethos and spirit of the democratic nominee.

because up until tonight, they didn't have a lot! bit thin on the anecdotes quite frankly! this is what they were running out with! >> vice president harris and to this is my restaurant. [laughter] >> jon: i know you only had four weeks to put this together but come on, you gotta do better then "i was working and she walked in." "i drove her in an uber!" come on the big movers and shakers of the democratic party must know her well. >> she worked at mcdonald's, and she greeted every person with that thousand watt smile and said "how can i help you."

[laughter] >> jon: i think you have to say that -- when you work at mcdonald's. or really any point of servi occupation. "how can i help you" is kind of the thing. i don't know that the transaction can take place if you don't acknowledge that delicate dance of whether or not they will supersize. are there less professional more personal stories? >> my phone rings... it's kamala harris. she called me! >> my phone rang again, and it was vice president kamala harris. >> if you are lucky enough to be her friend, she calls you on her birthday!

[cheers and applause] >> jon: weight? wait. she calls you on "her" birthday? that is very [bleep]. on her birthday she calls you. "hey girl, it's kamala. anything you want to say to me that you should have said hours ago?" by the way this is like night three into the convention. and we are like, so she has a phone! by the way is literally one of the only things we knew about her before she took office! >> we did it, we did it, joe.

>> jon: that she called people! [phone dialing imitation] but credit where credit is due, the democrats, on short notice, exploited their newfound momentum and enthusiasm with a display of the breadth and width of this diverse often contradictory party of roosevelt. at their convention, they had union leaders and ceos. they had democratic party icons and lifelong republicans. they had a guy yelling "screw the billionaires," followed immediately by a very happy billionaire. [cheers and applause]

it's all okay if it is our billionaire! [laughter] i don't like billionaires, but she's all right! they had guys making fun of people going to yale... and a bunch of people who went to yale. they had barack obama... and jewish barack obama. [laughter] that's always good for politics. you know what really works? a jewish guy who sounds like a black guy. the democrats had people who prosecuted sexual predators

and -- [laughter] erthe goes that booking. [laughter] they had black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, gay americans, jewish