Jon Stewart, Donald Trump and the Presidential Debate
Just two weeks after Jon Stewart stepped away from television Americans are clamoring to get him back as moderator of one of the presidential candidates debates.
The Change.org petition was started two weeks back but began to go viral two days ago and is now rocketing toward its goal of a minimum of 200,000 signatures. It calls for one of the major debates held in the weeks leading up to the November 8, 2016, election to be hosted by Stewart, citing his experience interviewing political leaders and heads of state, his Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, and a poll showing that 52 percent of respondents thought Stewart shared their “view of the world.”‘
Stewart who ended his 16 year-run on ‘The Daily Show’ on Aug. 6 is more than qualified or the job the petition said noting that he interviewed 15 heads of state and 22 US cabinet members ‘while establishing himself as the most trusted person in (satirical) news.’
Supporters of the Stewart campaign include Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley who said on Twitter that he had signed.
Neither Stewart’s representatives nor the Commission on Presidential Debates returned calls for comment on Friday.
Stewart stepped down from ‘The Daily Show’ without saying what he planned to do next. His only announced engagement so far is to host the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) SummerSlam in New York on Sunday that will be shown on WWE pay-per-view television.
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