The final delegates put the next Democratic nominee for president over the top to clinch the nomination. The crowd is electric inside the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, before exploding in applause after the state of New York announces its favorite son is going to take on Vice President JD Vance for the presidency.
“There it is. Jon Stewart is now officially the nominee!” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gushes. “He is the man who will take back this country from tyranny!”
Now, before you pooh-pooh the idea of a fake anchor of a fake news show on Comedy Central being the new leader of the Blue Team, think about the precedent and the weakness of his competition.
First, the precedent:
Ronald Reagan won his party’s nomination in 1980 and the presidency in a landslide.
Clint Eastwood was once elected mayor of Carmel, California.
Fred Grandy, who played a guy named Gopher on The Love Boat, won two different House races in Iowa.
Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian and actor, won Ukraine’s presidency in 2019, also in a landslide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger won two gubernatorial elections in the blue state of California as a Republican.
