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Late night TV hosts were quick to gloat over the GOP‘s failure to hand Democrats a midterm shellacking despite decades-high inflation and Joe Biden‘s sinking popularity.
Stephen Colbert, of The Late Show, kicked off the quips on Wednesday night, echoing reports that the expected GOP ‘red wave’ never came.
‘The red wave was more like a pink splash,’ Colbert said, reading off a report from Time Magazine. ‘Yes, a pink splash! It was a salmon drizzle, a rosy wash.’
‘It’s like what happens when you accidentally wash your Klan robes with your MAGA hat. It’s just a little pink wash.’
Although Republicans are expected to take majority in the House, the margin of victory is less than expected while control for the Senate is still too close to call.
The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert kicked off jokes targeting the GOP’s failure to bring about a ‘red wave’ in the midterm elections, calling it a pink wash
Although the GOP is expected to take the House, they won’t be winning by the large margin predicted. Meanwhile, the fight for the Senate remains tight
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel also poked fun at the lack of a ‘red wave’ and the blow to former President Donald Trump, who saw several of the candidates he endorsed lose.
‘Whatever happens it was less a red wave and more of a purple nurple. America twisted Donald Trump’s chubby little nipples into a balloon animal last night.’
Among the highly contested races is Georgia’s Senate election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Republican Herschel Walker, which is heading to a run-off.
Kimmel took aim at Walker on Wednesday night, mocking his bizarre speech during the tight race as Kimmel quipped that the Senate hopeful ‘remained unfazed and unintelligible.’
‘More importantly, we get another month of Herschel Walker on the campaign Trail, which is clearly a gift from the comedy god,’ Kimmel said.
While Kimmel poked fun at the Trump-picked candidates struggling in the polls, he reiterated the analysis from several pundits on TV that Trump was ultimately the biggest loser of the night.
‘Trump is becoming the GOP version of the guy who graduated high school two years ago but still hangs around the football games trying to pick up girls in his Toyota Corolla.’
Jimmy Kimmel called Donald Trump the biggest loser of the night while also poking fun at GOP Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, who will go into a run-off election in Georgia
Jumping in on the mockery of the former president was the Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, who joked that Trump was not taking the results well.
‘Trump was so made he ran upstairs and slammed the door of his tanning bed,’ the comedian quipped. ‘Ketchup everywhere.’
Fallon also mocked the former president’s alleged outrage over Republicans losing a Senate seat to Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, who beat Trump-backed candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz.
‘Apparently Trump blamed Melania for convincing him to back Dr. Oz, saying that it wasn’t her ‘best decision,” Fallon said. ‘Then Melania said, ‘It certainly wasn’t my worst.”
Jimmy Fallon also joined in on mocking Trump and Republicans’ results in the midterms
The Democrats had a better-than-expected night, holding off a red wave or a ‘shellacking’ as former President Barack Obama called his first experience losing midterm races.
The House still hasn’t been called for Republicans – with 207 House races so far going their way, while Democrats retained 183, with a number of competitive races still to be called.
To win the House majority, a party needs 218 seats.
The Senate remained winnable for the Democrats, with outstanding calls to be made in Nevada and Arizona.
Arizona looked likely to stay in the party’s hands with Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly leading his GOP challenger Blake Masters by around 5 points with about two-thirds of the vote reporting.
In Nevada, Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto was trailing her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt.
Even if Republicans pick up Nevada’s Senate seat, the Democrats can keep a majority if they hold onto Georgia.
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