Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett Wants No Credit for Forcing Joe Biden Out
In the weeks between President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his decision to step aside, no one in political media was making the case against his candidacy louder than the former Barack Obama staffers and co-hosts of Pod Save America.
In his third appearance on The Last Laugh podcast, Crooked Media co-founder Jon Lovett returns to talk about his unexpectedly prominent role in the Democratic Party’s existential crisis and how he’s feeling now that Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the presumptive nominee who will take on Donald Trump in the fall. We also discuss how the political comedy world handled both Biden’s decline and Trump’s assassination attempt, how he navigates writing jokes for his own podcast Lovett or Leave It, and how on earth he ended up as a contestant on the upcoming season of Survivor.
When I begin our conversation congratulating the “Obama pod bro cabal” on a successful coup against Biden, Lovett takes a long pause before saying, “Yes, your facetious tone noted,” before giving a more serious answer than I was expecting.