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it out. Give me bat live.

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Try sense of that. And uh,

1:02

I don't know about you, but I was hello

1:04

nervous today. I spent

1:06

the whole day updating social media waiting

1:09

to hear the results. But now the votes

1:11

are in and it's official. A

1:14

dress Alba's magazine didn't

1:17

know the sexist not alive. Oh

1:20

man, oh man,

1:23

I was so worried he would lose the vote. Oh

1:27

there was another vote that had me worried today. Yeah,

1:29

the mid terms, the day

1:31

when voters were officially gonna decide is

1:34

America racist or is

1:36

it openly racist? I

1:39

don't know right now. Some people like, oh, if America saw racist,

1:41

Trevor, why didn't you go back to South Africa because it's also a

1:44

racist. That's why I like

1:46

it here. It reminds me of home. So

1:49

let's touch and go for a while. Today the

1:51

blue wave was looking more like a smirking

1:53

pe smurf that was peeing. And uh.

1:56

What was worse is that the results just

1:58

wouldn't come in right the whole the whole

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day, Like for the last few hours. It has been too close

2:02

to call, too early to call. It's like we

2:05

texted America, you up and then all

2:07

we could see is that little typing bubble

2:10

and it's like, yo, just tell me America, do you want to smash

2:12

you or not? But

2:15

after a night sponsored by Petro

2:17

Bismol's official,

2:19

the Democrats have taken the

2:21

house. Yeah

2:32

yeah, look at them, I look at people.

2:34

Look wow, wow,

2:42

okay, okay, okay, wow.

2:45

You guys are almost as excited as Rachel Maddow.

2:47

She when she heard the news, she

2:50

just exploded into a pile of I voted stickers.

2:54

So before we get to the results, please welcome

2:56

my course for the evening wrong with Junia. Everybody

3:01

in the house. Roy,

3:04

I only every one question for you? Did you vote?

3:06

Oh yeah, man? About five six times

3:08

man, multiple

3:10

stuff. I don't. I don't think that's how that's supposed to work, but I

3:12

appreciate your enthusiasm. All Right, we're gonna be We're gonna

3:14

be checking in with Roy. But we do have

3:16

votes that are still coming in. But there are some things

3:19

that we do know for certain. Right. Uh, this

3:21

has been a night of first in Colorado.

3:24

Jared Polis has made history as

3:26

the first openly gay man to

3:29

be a lected governor. Yeah,

3:33

the first openly gay man. How's

3:35

it taking that long? That's amazing? Openly game

3:37

and you know what that means, Colorado, all of you are

3:39

now gay. I don't. I don't

3:41

make the rules. So congratulations. Also,

3:45

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Clide

3:47

had the first female

3:50

Muslims elected to Congress.

3:54

And also and also for the first time,

3:56

the first two Native American women.

3:59

Yeah, so congratulations to Shari

4:01

David's in Kansas and Den Holland

4:04

in New Mexico. That's right, the first

4:06

Native American women elected to

4:08

Congress. That is really excited, like you just like

4:10

see what's happening. And no, no, no, no,

4:13

we're not talking about you. Elizabeth Warren. Shoot

4:17

hold on, shoot hold

4:19

on so many first, help me, help

4:21

me, help me understand this again. Now you got

4:23

two first Muslim women and

4:26

two first Native American women.

4:29

There can only be one first. Only one person could

4:31

be first. You can't have two first at the same time. That's

4:34

mean you can't have a double first. Okay,

4:37

so what are you saying, someone's gonna have to decide who You can't

4:39

have a second like somebody got to be buzz

4:41

All from They can't both be Neil Armstrong. You

4:44

can't have two Neil Armstrongs like

4:46

they didn't. Like when Neil Armstrong jumped out,

4:48

I guess he was the first man on the moon. Yeah, he

4:50

was first, mean buzz All from the second it was one, like they was

4:52

gonna jumped together. The same thing was that they was on Was

4:55

they getting ready to jump in the same To be funny is if

4:57

we found out that that was the plan and then

5:00

it was like, oh, your shoes untied? And then he

5:02

checked and he was like one small staff on man

5:06

that I didn't think of that. Well, they both first,

5:08

it doesn't matter. Moving on to Texas, it

5:10

is being reported that Ted Cruise has

5:12

officially defeated betto Rock um

5:17

No look I mean, Beyonce did

5:19

endorse battles, so in a way, I guess he won. Uh

5:22

yeah, if life gives you Beyonce as you make lemonade

5:24

and look, guys, we can make fun of

5:26

Ted Cruise, but this guy has been reelected

5:29

now, so we have to start showing him some respect.

5:31

So tonight, no jokes about Ted Cruiz. Just congratulations,

5:35

Well done, Senator Ted Cruiz. Congratulations.

5:38

Now you may be surprised that Ted Cruise won a popularity

5:41

contest, but we sent Desi Lighting to Texas

5:43

earlier today, and you know what, you could

5:45

actually tell that the vote wasn't going to be as one

5:47

sided as you think. I mean, people are saying

5:49

that the media is biased for Beato Award, but that's

5:52

ridiculous, right, totally ridiculous.

5:54

So what do you love about him most? I love

5:56

everything about him. What

5:59

do you find most streaming about him? I

6:02

don't think he's dreaming. I

6:05

feel like he's just a normal guy. Yes,

6:07

I love normal men. I love

6:10

the way he speaks to everyone, the fact

6:12

that we need to put party aside and work

6:14

together and we never want to come together. Yes,

6:18

yes, is

6:22

it always this hot in Texas? Yes it is who'd

6:25

you vote for today? I vote for Ted Cruiz? You like

6:27

Ted Cruise? I do like Ted Cruise. Sorry

6:29

I think you misheard me. Um, I said Ted Cruise.

6:32

Yes, I heard you. So who did you

6:34

vote for? Today? Ted Cruz? He's the kind

6:36

of guy you can just sit down and spit

6:38

out a beer with. I suppose

6:40

if bud' dree beer. But yeah,

6:43

I think the media is biased. Totally agree.

6:45

There's no room to be biased. You're

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wearing a Beta shirt. Hey

6:50

isap here because

6:54

he like everybody. Thank you so much, Daisy, So

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tonight as a big night. We have most

7:02

of the results that matter. And for more on tonight's

7:04

election results, let's turn back to my man at the desk

7:06

or with Junior, everybody give it up for one more time. It

7:10

looks like it looks

7:12

like the Democrats have retaken the House.

7:15

So now the question is what does this mean for

7:17

America's future? The future, trup

7:20

The future has already started, not

7:22

that the Democrats have the house. America

7:25

has descended into a socialist chaos,

7:27

just like Trump said it would. It's

7:30

like Venezuela outside, but worst it's Venezuela

7:32

with white people. All

7:35

the socialism but none of the rhythm.

7:39

A rory. Look, man, I don't know if I would trust

7:41

what Trump said, Like he said a lot of things. For instance,

7:43

he said Republicans would keep the House. So this

7:45

is gonna be a tough loss for him. Tough

7:48

loss? Are you're kidding me? This is a great

7:50

night for Donald Trump. Trump right

7:53

now sitting back celebrating with a big,

7:55

juicy cheeseburger and two scoops

7:57

of ice cream twice. That's the frosty

8:00

for bred four Patty special sauce kind of

8:02

night, Trevor, The cheeseburger ala

8:04

mode is reserved for special occasion,

8:06

dude, Like, why would Trump be celebrating

8:08

the Republicans lost the House. It'll be harder to

8:11

achieve his agenda. He'll be facing a lot more

8:13

investigations. How is this a good night? Because

8:16

when all of his policies go wrong,

8:18

he has someone to blame. Stop

8:22

market dropping, Blame the Democrats,

8:24

Farmers hurt by trade, tears thanks Nancy

8:26

Pelosi, even the little stuff, Even the little

8:28

stuff he could blame on the Democrats. Oh your

8:31

couch getting repossessing, pouring hubs down,

8:33

that's on you, Maxine orders. See

8:37

now, Trump has a scapegoat, and

8:40

everybody loves a scapegoat like I like I

8:42

what the house? I love to blame everything on my dog,

8:45

track Mudd in the house, it was the dog. If

8:48

I let a fart slip out, I make sure it's near the

8:50

dog. Trevor, one

8:52

time I got in a car accident and I just screwed

8:54

her over put my dog behind the wheel. I got off scott

8:56

free. Why it doesn't make sense dogs

8:58

can't drive. That can mond for two years

9:01

to spend a license. So

9:04

you think Donald Trump was the real win of tonight.

9:07

Hell no, I'm just messing around. Democrats

9:10

spanked that ass like they were Stormy Daniels

9:12

and he was Donald Trump,

9:22

So so the Democrats. The

9:24

Democrats wrote a wave of enthusiasm to retake

9:26

the House, but as we said earlier, the

9:28

wave was less kwa gonga and more

9:31

high and uh. One of the reasons

9:33

the race was so tight wasn't surprising

9:35

lack of enthusiasm in some of the most important

9:38

voting districts. So earlier we sent Michael

9:40

Costa to find out more. Thanks

9:42

Trevor, I'm here in California's district,

9:45

which is a critical house race. But

9:47

like me, there's a ship ton of people here who

9:49

won't be voting, and we all have our reasons.

9:52

Why aren't you voting today? I don't have the

9:54

time. It takes time. It's not

9:56

like there's a polling place right behind you that you could

9:59

vote right out. Did

10:03

you vote today? Do you plan on voting today? Nope?

10:06

Why, I'm just kind of too lazy.

10:09

I got a lot of things for crashing about, and that

10:11

one is gonna make the list. So you have a

10:13

list of things that later you will put

10:15

off. Yeah, I'm not voting.

10:18

Tell me why. I'm just not interested.

10:20

I would say, have you voted in previous elections?

10:23

No? I have not. I'm not registered. Is there an example

10:25

of something you have voted in in the past?

10:27

American Idol? You voted for American Idol. Are you planning

10:30

on voting this election? I am not. A

10:32

lot of politicians don't serve is

10:35

they're not out there. Um, they don't have the

10:37

same connection that surfers have with the ocean

10:39

and our environment, which just discourages

10:41

me from even participating. If politicians

10:44

served, would that change things?

10:46

It may, um, special things

10:48

happen with the ocean. There's a lot of magical things

10:51

that the ocean has to offer even more than

10:53

you know. Are you

10:55

on drugs right now, Maddie, No, I

10:57

don't see drugs. The ocean is my drug.

10:59

Are you happy with the current political environment

11:01

that we have. I don't know enough to answer

11:04

that. You don't know enough to answer that it's not. You

11:06

don't feel like it's affecting you in your life. I

11:08

just feel like enough people don't care, but

11:11

like I feel like more people should care. And

11:13

by more people you mean you, yeah,

11:16

I guess so. So there you have a Trevor. Despite

11:19

living in a swing district, the people in California's

11:21

forty eight have a very clear message and that message

11:24

is Michael

11:26

cost to everyone. Thank you so much, Michael. Stay

11:29

tuned, but Danny Show is live

11:31

and we will be back right after this with more election

11:33

night coverage. Ever about welcome

11:44

back to the Daily shows wide election

11:46

night coverage. There are still results

11:48

coming in from all over the country. News

11:50

from New York where we are. Andrew Cuomo

11:53

was elected to his third term as

11:55

Governor of New York. Yes, Unfortunately

11:58

he cannot make it to the victory party because the subway

12:01

is stuck. Ah, let's

12:04

move into more results that are gonna keep

12:06

coming in from around the country. Um, we're gonna

12:08

go into some analysis right now and how it all went down.

12:11

So please let's go to the Runnie Chang, and I was super high

12:13

tech election sensor. Ronnie, what are you watching

12:15

tonight? What

12:19

am I watching? I'm watching the other network,

12:21

suck, Trevor. That's why I'm watching every

12:24

channel. It's the same thing. Some dude zooming

12:26

in on his high tegulactoral map breaking

12:28

down the vote with deep analysis of congressional

12:31

districts in California's nine

12:33

he was expected to go blue blah blah blah blah blah

12:35

blah boring. That's not deep.

12:38

I'll go so deep. I'm gonna end up back

12:40

in Malaysia coming by county analysis.

12:43

That's pathetic, neighborhoods blah blah

12:45

block. I mean, if that's as deep as you

12:47

can go, good for you. Try and feel good about yourself.

12:49

But I'm going all the way in Trevor

12:52

focusing on one guy, Kyle

12:55

in Vista, California on Hillside Drive.

12:58

Yeah, I'm saying this whole me to my election comes

13:00

down to Kyle. So let's go to the

13:02

hidden cameras I broke in installed last

13:04

week. Okay, while the

13:06

bat he's in the bubble back. So I'm gonna go on a limb

13:08

here and say he's your typical sensitive snowflake

13:11

liberal. But let's get some more intel

13:13

from Kyle's medicine cabinet. It

13:15

looks like a lot of gas X and low

13:17

traman, so obviously calls a huge

13:20

loser, but we still don't know

13:22

how he voted. And I didn't

13:24

want to do this, but yo,

13:27

kyl yo yo, who do you

13:29

vote for? You gassy, fungus infested loser.

13:31

Okay, okay, okaya, Runnie, Runny,

13:33

Runny. We're good, Runny chating everybody, Runnie were go

13:35

ahead? No, thank

13:38

you? Thank you for that analysis.

13:40

That was very very deep and very unethical.

13:43

Um now, there is a lot

13:45

to unpack from these races, right, but unfortunately

13:47

we only have until eleven thirty before Comedy

13:49

Central cuts us off for a rerun of Futurama.

13:52

So to get some political

13:54

analysis and to get it all in, we turned out

13:56

to our own election experts, Jabuki on White and do

13:58

say slow and everybody thank

14:02

you so much for joining us. Like I said, we

14:05

don't have a lot of time, so I'm gonna have to

14:07

ask you to both give your election allatticis

14:09

at the same time. So to start,

14:11

what do you both think about the state of the race

14:14

tonight? Thanks Trevor. Let's

14:16

talk about the House Arizona

14:19

very actually

14:27

crazy story de trains Auntie Tricia

14:29

claims once gave a hand job to guy fiery

14:32

influence. Wow, that

14:35

that actually kind of works. So so let me ask you this, then, do

14:37

you think tonight could be considered as the

14:39

Democrats quote unquote blue wave?

14:43

Good question. It's all about the

14:45

voter, generally speaking,

14:47

the more Americans are, the

14:51

results are for the mar and Marley take

14:54

my word for it. Do not watch Marley

14:56

and Me Drunk as hell on airplane. Got

15:00

it is really interesting. I didn't know that turnout was so correlated

15:02

to minority party success. Now, the last question

15:04

I have is would you say that Trump's rallies

15:06

were an asset to the candidates that he supported.

15:09

No, but it's hard the

15:13

success talking

15:18

election night. Thank you so much, guys,

15:22

Jo Say Stone Jabot, I think you can agree.

15:24

We're all more informed than we were five minutes ago.

15:27

Stay tuned more Election Night coverage coming

15:29

up. When The Daily Show returns, we'll be right back.

15:41

Welcome back. So the Daily Shows

15:43

live election night coverage,

15:45

so we have a few more results here.

15:48

It is official in the Senate race of Utah,

15:50

Mitt Romney has won the race and

15:53

will be uh Utah and new senator.

15:55

And you don't want kids, If you wanted a

15:57

story to inspire you, this is its all right because

16:00

look at mid Romney. The guy was a governor, ran

16:02

for president, lost and he could have

16:04

disappeared off into the woods, but no he

16:06

didn't. He fought right,

16:09

he came back and now he's a senator. You understand

16:11

that this guy had nothing when he started out.

16:13

All he had was a dad who was governor and five million

16:16

dollars. And look at him today.

16:19

Also like how he's he failed at president

16:21

and now he's just like combining all the other jobs to try

16:24

and get presidents. He's like, okay, running

16:26

the Olympics and senator and governor. That's president,

16:28

right, that's president. No, it's not. But congratulations

16:30

to you. We're joined by our special guest

16:32

tonight, Jamiale Smith. Everybody, please welcome,

16:37

Welcome back to the show. And this

16:42

is one of the craziest nights in America

16:44

when all the results are flying in, everybody's trying

16:46

to predict everything. Um,

16:49

do you think, judging by what we've seen so

16:51

far, that this was a good night for America? Or

16:53

is it two call? It's two students a call. Well, it was definitely

16:55

America, that's for sure. We saw we

16:58

saw in Florida in four Suddenly it

17:00

looks like Andrew Gillum has conceded that governor's

17:02

race to Rohn De Santis, And uh,

17:05

that is uh, you know something I think you know, frankly,

17:08

we've seen a discomfort with black leadership

17:10

even though we you know, we've had eight years of a black president,

17:12

but a lot of folks is it's still not ready for black folks

17:15

to run things. But is it fair to say that though, because

17:17

I mean, like you, it's what that was forty

17:19

nine to fifty. I think that's what fifty votes

17:22

that separated that. Well, And it's funny because eight

17:25

million and Amendment four passed

17:27

in Florida tonight, which gives you the right

17:29

of the voting rights back to one

17:32

point six million people who have

17:35

been formally incarcerated. So you

17:37

know, it suffice to say that could have made the difference. It

17:40

really is an interesting, you know

17:42

race to watch it all the mid terms are because

17:45

a lot of people said that this was an interesting mid term because

17:47

it wasn't about the candidates. People said, this is

17:49

about Trump or not Trump. Do

17:52

you think that's what it was and do you think that was decided

17:54

tonight? I think that certainly the House

17:57

victory for the Democrats repudi h Trump in

17:59

a big way that you know, uh, nine

18:01

percent of the you know, the margin

18:04

for the popular vote, which means that you know,

18:07

it's almost you know, that's a lot of people in this country

18:09

who have said, no, the Trump independence abandoned

18:11

Trump. So it is a repudiation of

18:14

Trump in that respect. But

18:16

but then you see the governor's

18:18

races in Georgia right now it's

18:20

still pending campus leading, and in Florida

18:23

and some other states you see Holly winning over

18:25

mccaskell Missouri. So I think that what

18:28

you've seen is that you've seen a repudiation of Trump,

18:30

but you've seen that Trump is um works, Trump

18:32

isn works, but not Trump. Now let's

18:34

go back to the Stacey Abrams

18:36

race. You said it's too close to Cole

18:39

right now, and it looks like camp is winning. It's

18:41

a very strange race for me because I mean the person

18:43

who's meant to be monitoring the race is running in

18:45

the race. Um. And you also

18:48

have a situation where it

18:50

feels like people don't have a

18:53

trust in the voting system

18:55

right now in Georgia. You know, the stories that we were coming

18:57

up online, People are saying like, how is this happening?

19:00

Then, most importantly for many the polls, the

19:02

polls had Stacey Abrams winning and it doesn't

19:04

seem like that's happening. When when does

19:06

the news stop reporting the polls to people? When

19:08

when does that just go out of the window. Honestly, I mean

19:11

a lot of us in the news don't pay attention to the polls

19:13

because we look at what happened in sixteen.

19:15

You had people overestimating, you know, the

19:18

the support for Hillary Clinton. Grantedy

19:20

won by more than three million votes nationwide,

19:22

but national polls didn't really matter. It mattered

19:24

about what happened in those states. And you see the same

19:27

kind of thing playing out tonight. And I think what we need

19:29

to understand is that there are other dynamics that play

19:31

here. There's something called the Bradley effect, where

19:33

a lot of people say they're going to vote safe for a

19:35

black hand in it, and then they get inside that polling

19:38

place, they get into that ballot and that ballot

19:40

and they're like, I don't know if I can pull

19:42

the lever for the black guy. And so unfortunately,

19:45

I think that, you know, we've seen a lot of that in this election.

19:47

And I don't know if that's the only

19:50

reason why Abrams is down and

19:52

get them lost, but I think that it certainly it contributes

19:55

to it. I think a lot of folks don't, you know, understand

19:57

how race and racism play in this country. I

19:59

know it's too soon to say for certain, but

20:02

the Democrats have the House. Does

20:05

this mean that America is starting to veal

20:07

on on a to what a different course? Does this

20:09

mean that Democrats can begin a fight back?

20:12

Does this lit Republicans reassess

20:14

what their messages with Trump. I think it means

20:16

that this is the beginning of the fight. Frankly, I mean,

20:18

you have, uh, It's democratic House

20:20

can now subpoena pretty much anyone

20:23

they want. They can start the investigations. They can basically

20:25

do what Congress is supposed to do, which is to

20:27

put a check on the president. And while

20:29

he's still gonna have to sendate to appoint his judges and

20:31

whatnot, these legislative agenda is

20:33

essentially dead. And so don't

20:37

don't don't cheer yet, don't

20:39

here yet, because that gives them a lot of time to

20:41

do other things, Okay, like start

20:43

more wars. So like

20:46

an emotional roller costion. Yeah, it's And

20:49

the thing is that there are no clear answers from this election.

20:51

I think we're really gonna have to see not only how the President

20:53

reacts, but also how strongly Democrats

20:56

go forward now that they have people, even the people that

20:58

lost, you betto uh Gilham

21:00

and possibly Abrams, real stars in their

21:02

party that have shown a pathway forward for them

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