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Input: NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert announced on “The Colbert Report” that he is exploring a presidential run in South Carolina, and made it legal by handing control of his super PAC to Jon Stewart in the opening segment of Thursday night’s show. 
  
 “I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for president of the United States of America of South Carolina,” Colbert said during the Thursday evening show, several hours before airtime on Comedy Central. 
  
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 “This is a difficult decision. I’ve talked it over with my money. I’ve talked it over with my spiritual adviser.” 
  
 Trevor Potter, the former Federal Election Commission chairman, acts as Colbert’s lawyer and was a guest on the show. “You cannot be a candidate and run a super PAC,” Potter said. “That would be coordinating with yourself.” 
  
 Colbert’s super PAC is Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. His 501(c)4 is the Colbert Super PAC SHH (as in “shh”) Institute. 
  
 The stunt was part of Colbert’s continuing effort to expose what he considers absurdities in U.S. election law. ||||| Jay Mallin/Bloomberg News 
  
 The comedian Stephen Colbert will announce Thursday that he wants to be a write-in candidate in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary. Or will he? 
  
 Mr. Colbert is expected to make some sort of announcement on his program, “The Colbert Report,” Thursday night, though neither he nor his network, Comedy Central, has revealed what it will be. His program will be taped around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. 
  
 Riffing off his claimed dissatisfaction with the Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney, Mr. Colbert suggested to his fans on Wednesday that he should hop in the race. 
  
 “My heart always leads me to me!” he exclaimed. “And I am so not Mitt!” He said he would “go home, sit down and talk it over with my money” before announcing a decision on Thursday. 
  
 A silly or serious bid by Mr. Colbert would almost certainly create some media excitement in the days leading up to the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21, but probably less electoral excitement. He’d be a write-in candidate, after all, since he missed the filing deadline to be on the ballot in the state. 
  
  
  
 That said, Mr. Colbert, who has comically flirted with — and mocked the possibility of — runs for political office before, already has a finance committee, a “super PAC” called Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and a fan base that would support him. 
  
 In the event of a presidential run by Mr. Colbert, he would have to hand over responsibility for the PAC to another person. Mr. Colbert’s lawyer, Trevor Potter, said in an email Thursday afternoon that he could not comment. 
  
 When Chip McGrath of The New York Times asked Mr. Colbert how much money the Super PAC had raised, he declined to comment. “That’s what PACs do — they don’t have to tell you,” he said. But he did say that about 30,000 people had contributed money. 
  
 On his program Wednesday night, Mr. Colbert cited a recent poll by Public Policy Polling that showed 5 percent support for him in South Carolina, slightly ahead of Jon Huntsman Jr., who was shown to have 4 percent support. 
  
 Given the margin of error, the two men were essentially tied — but for Mr. Colbert, it might be enough for more than a week’s worth of comedic material. |||||
Output:
Stephen Colbert is pressing the joke: He announced tonight that he's exploring a presidential run in South Carolina, reports Politico. He even turned over control of his beloved super PAC to, yes, Jon Stewart to make it legal. “I am proud to announce that I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for president of the United States of America of South Carolina,” Colbert said. (The show airs later tonight.) Colbert had floated the possibility on last night's show, after noting that he's polling above Jon Huntsman in the state. If he goes through with it, he'd have to be a write-in candidate because he missed the filing deadline, notes the New York Times. "The stunt was part of Colbert’s continuing effort to expose what he considers absurdities in US election law," writes Politico's Mike Allen, who was a guest on the show.