Jon Stewart on the midterms: ‘Republicans running for Congress can’t defend Trump’s reckless record’

With a week left before the U.S. midterm elections, late-night hosts ridiculed Donald Trump's campaigning and his party's closing pitch. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show said Republican congressional candidates keep changing the subject because they cannot defend Trump's record or their refusal to restrain him. He cited Trump's crude comments about the body of Ohio Senate candidate Jon Husted and about the rapper Nicki Minaj, whom Trump introduced at a Michigan rally. Stewart also noted that Fox News host Martha MacCallum objected to Barack Obama's quip about Trump's White House renovations and a Cheesecake Factory, defending the restaurant rather than reacting to the Saddam Hussein comparison, according to The Guardian.

Seth Meyers of Late Night catalogued Republican attacks: an Ohio ad drawing on a gubernatorial candidate's childhood trauma, a jihadist label aimed at a Michigan Senate candidate, a slur against South Carolina's Democratic Senate nominee, and a joke by JD Vance about James Talarico in Texas.

Jimmy Kimmel highlighted Trump's California lawsuit over vote counting and his order for the Justice Department to block certification of Alaska's Senate race should Democrat Mary Peltola win, calling it another distraction from Trump's failures.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →