They’re not ditching politics in favor of Hollywood, however.

“I feel like I’ve already been a content provider for 23 years,” O’Malley, the ex-governor of Maryland, joked.

Instead, O’Malley and Huckabee were there to illuminate the comparisons between today’s divided political climate and that of 1776.

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The two politicians, both trounced in the primaries, called for bipartisan unity, although each man donned a tie the color of his own political party- O’Malley in blue and Huckabee in red.

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“A spirit of resilience, a shared love of country, is so much greater than the things that divide us,” O’Malley said.

Kahn described his character as a man always willing to put his country ahead of himself, adding that today’s candidates could benefit from doing so as well.

“I think that spirit of unselfish service is something we could use again,” Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, said of Washington.

O’Malley views Abraham Lincoln as the ideal president, because of his ability to bring the country together “with purity of soul that I think is rare to see.”

It wasn’t all puppies and rainbows, however.