Stephen Colbert digests the fallout from Super Tuesday, raises a toast to sad Chris Christie
Now that the results of Super Tuesday are in, Stephen Colbert can stop filling air time with Hillary Clinton's terrorist cat. So on what he called "my God what have we done Wednesday," Colbert was able to focus on the fallout of the Super Tuesdays for Clinton and Donald Trump. On the Democratic side, he began, Bernie Sanders suffered form low voter turnout: "Apparently, a lot of people who were feeling the Bern got cooled down by some Preparation H." But Colbert focused mostly on the Republicans, who are having a much more vibrant existential battle.
Trump was the big story, but Sen. Ted Cruz was "the biggest of last night's losers," winning enough delegates to surpass Sen. Marco Rubio in "the race to be the final candidate to pass through Donald Trump's digestive tract," he said. Republicans are torn over what to do about Trump nearly securing the nomination, but luckily Trump surrogate Chris Christie put all those divisions to rest with his rousing introduction to Trump's victory speech, Colbert said, kidding. While most people have obsessed about Christie's sad faces standing behind Trump, Colbert focused on the opening act. "Chris Christie sort of sounds like the best man at a wedding he never believed in and now it's too late to stop," he said, closing it out with a spot-on version of what that might look like at an actual wedding. Watch below. Peter Weber
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