“I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s election night”

“I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s election night” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. 
   
“@LinajkReturns: I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s Election night” was posted on Twitter by Maille Ma’am on October 19, 2015. (The original tweet is no longer available.) Authorship is uncertain. The joke became popular for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a contest between Donald Trump (Republican) and Hillary Clinton (Democrat).
 
     
Twitter
Maille Ma’am
@MailleMaam
Ha! Tonight here! #scary #ornot “@LinajkReturns: I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s Election night.”
10:23 AM · Oct 19, 2015·Tweetbot for iΟS
   
Twitter
Team GoodAgent.org
@LivingInEastBay
Remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year? Well forget that. Now, it’s Election night
10:48 AM · Oct 19, 2015·Facebook
   
Twitter
MissyG
@therealmissyg
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s Election night.
2:34 PM · Oct 19, 2015·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
CrownRoyalGuy
@CrownRoyalGuy
Remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now it’s Election night. Can’t wait for this day to be over. No more ads on tv
5:51 PM · Oct 19, 2015·Tweetbot for iΟS
   
Twitter
rev
@stephenrea
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year.
Now, it’s Election night.
7:23 AM · Oct 20, 2015·TweetDeck
 
9 May 2016, Huddersfield (UK) Daily Examiner, “Be afraid ... be VERY afraid!,” pg. 6:
REMEMBER when Halloween was the scariest night of the year? Now it’s election night in America when Donald Trump hopes to become the next President of the United States and the most powerful man in the world.
   
29 October 2016, The Daily Mirror (London, UK), “Why Trump Halloween masks are really scary: Christopher Bucktin’s America THE BUCK STOPS HERE,” pg. 26:
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now, it’s election night.
     
Facebook
Meanwhile in Canada
October 31, 2016 ·
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year - now it’s the night of the US election.
     
Facebook
97 Percenters
February 18, 2020 ·
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year. Now it’s election night.
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/VERBERD October 23, 2020
I remember when Halloween was the scariest night of the year….. Now it’s election night.