Samantha Bee catches up on 4 weeks of Trump vs. Clinton, and she's terrified
The big news, if you read the tabloids and fever-swamp websites, is that Hillary Clinton has passed away, Samantha Bee joked on Monday's Full Frontal. "She says she's not dead, but as we know, she is a liar." Standing in front of an image of Queen Elizabeth I, Bee deadpanned, "I mean, who ever thought someone with the body of a weak and feeble woman could ever lead a great nation?" After weeks of leading in the polls, Clinton is only a few points ahead of Donald Trump, she noted. "Yay! We're back within the margin of terror." Their polling numbers don't add up to 100 percent, she added, "because of third-party candidates who give Hillary-haters a chance to remain morally pure while also putting Donald Trump in the White House."
Bee devoted a few NSFW moments to the third party candidates — she was particularly dismissive of Green Party nominee Jill Stein — and to Donald Trump's newest campaign manager. "Come on Hillary, God has given you the gift of opponents even less appealing than you," she said. "Just keep your eyes on the prize and take that high road straight to the White House." That teed up Clinton's "basket of deplorable" comment from Friday, and a big groan from Bee: "You know, when you see 'grossly generalistic' in the prompter, that's when you take a breath and think, 'Do I want to keep talking?' You don't barge ahead and torpedo your campaign with a dum-dum remark — that's BIll's job."
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