Cortez Masto’s victory means Georgia runoffs won’t determine control of the Senate, “so Georgians will have to find a new reason to vote for Herschel Walker,” Colbert said. “For a lot of them, it’s going to be, ‘That’s my dad!’” After a disappointing performance in the midterms, Republicans are “rolling up their sleeves and getting together to pick a scapegoat and throw them down the elevator shaft,” Colbert said. “Right now, knives are coming out for Senate Minority Leader and clinically depressed pudding Mitch McConnell” and Florida Sen. Rick Scott. “The Republican candidates are mad at McConnell for not telling voters what the GOP would do if they had control of the Senate,” Colbert explained. “And they’re more furious with Rick Scott telling voters what they would do if they had control of the Senate.” In particular, Scott discussed cutting Social Security and Medicare, which likely scared older voters. “Most shocking of all, some of the GOP blame goes to the person who really deserves it,” Colbert added. That would be Donald Trump, whom one Republican strategist accused of choosing conspiracy theorists to run for office, saying, “Turning the Republican party into MyPillow was a disaster.” “To which Mike Lindell replied: use promo code ‘GOP-Disaster for 20% off your next pillow!’ Colbert joked.
Trevor Noah
On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah also celebrated the Democrats’ control of the Senate. “But remember, if Republicans take control of the House, then any dream Democrats have of codifying Roe v Wade or taxing the rich or turning Pete Buttigieg into a real boy — they can’t do it,” he said. “I mean, they probably wouldn’t have done it anyway, but now they have someone to blame.” However, while Democrats no longer need Raphael Warnock’s victory over Herschel Walker in Georgia, “it would give them an extra cushion when Joe Manchin tries to block them, or when Kyrsten Sinema goes wrong, or Bernie Sanders loses a vote for arguing with a grocery store manager. “But we can admit, now that the stakes are a little lower, you want to see what Herschel Walker would be like as a senator,” Noah said. “I’m not saying it should, and I’m not saying it would be good for Georgia or the country, but when Mitch McConnell gets pregnant with another secret baby? It will be worth it!”
Seth Meyers
After a disappointing midterm performance, “Republicans are furiously pointing the finger at each other looking for someone to blame,” Seth Meyers said on Late Night, “and frankly it’s kind of fun to watch.” Get our weekly pop culture email delivered free to your inbox every Friday Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online advertising and content sponsored by external parties. For more information, see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Alabama Sen. Mo Brooks, a staunch Trump supporter, said last week that the former president was “dishonest, unfaithful, incompetent, coarse” — “which is true, but Trump didn’t prove that last week,” he said Meyers. “Just last week, there were consequences. “It’s so great to see these morons turn on each other,” he added. “It’s like a bunch of roommates who got a cougar as a pet and now they’re all like, ‘Has anyone seen Dave?’ “Predictably, as the GOP turns on him, Trump is lashing out with a series of completely nonsensical and typographical social media posts,” Meyers noted. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that Arizona “stole the Electron” from GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters, who lost to incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly. “How is it possible to type electron instead of election?” Myers wondered. “I’d say maybe Trump got autocorrect confused, but is it really possible that Trump’s autocorrect hasn’t learned the word election? It’s literally all he tweets about.”
Jimmy Kimmel
“It was an emotional weekend for Trump because he gave away a daughter and the Senate on the same night,” Jimmy Kimmel said Monday night, referring to Trump’s daughter Tiffany’s Mar-a-Lago wedding over the weekend. “Many of the candidates that Trump endorsed ended up losing,” he continued. “Everything Trump touches dies, which explains why Melania will live forever.” Many expect Trump to announce his 2024 campaign on Tuesday night, but “not too many of his fellow Republicans seem that jazzed about it,” Kimmel noted. “They tried to get him to delay the announcement. he said no. Many of them blame Trump for what happened in the midterms and see him as a liability going forward. But you know, we’ve heard that before. The question now is: are Republicans finally ready to part ways with Donald Trump for good?” It appears the answer is no for Mike Pence, whose memoir debuts on the same day as Trump’s expected announcement. ABC aired an hour-long interview with Pence on Monday night, in which the former vice president played down the Jan. 6 threat on his life — “take that, Monday Night Football,” Kimmel joked. “It was two hours of Bachelor in Paradise and then an hour of Mike Pence. It’s like having a cold sore in the hot tub and then washing it off. “Only Mike Pence could take a story where he was nearly hanged by a mob of rioters and make it read like a dishwasher instruction manual,” he added.
