Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper tried to tie Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show to Halloween by making fun of what he considered to be Republican fearmongering ahead of next Tuesday’s midterms. However, at one point, it was Klepper doing the fearmongering as he noticed a black man in the background of a recent rally featuring Vice President JD Vance and claimed he “might want to slip out a bit early” to escape the supposedly racist crowd.
Klepper introduced a clip of Vance discussing Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed by declaring, “Maybe somebody needs to tell the story in a more gripping way. I mean, JD Vance took a swing at that, and people seemed to be on board, although see if you can spot the moment where he might have lost the crowd a bit.”
In the clip, Vance rattled off several short sentences on why El-Sayed is a radical, “He says that he wants to pass a Green New Scam and kill the auto industry of the state. El-Sayed says that he wants to defund the police and abandon Michigan to crime. All year, Abdul has campaigned with his best friend, Hasan Piker, a man who said that we deserved 9/11. A man who says the United States is worse than Al-Qaeda. A man who says that we shouldn't care about black Americans.”
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