"Election 2018 is only 29 days away," Trevor Noah noted on Wednesday's Daily Show, and "one of the more interesting midterm contests is the governors race in Georgia. It's between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp," he explained, showing their photos, "and I'm not even going to waste time telling you which party they belong to, because come on." (Abrams is a black woman and Kemp a while male — though, to be fair, white male Democrat Ben McAdams is challenging Rep. Mia Love (R), a black woman, in Utah.) Noah brought out Roy Wood Jr. to offer his analysis of the Georgia race.
"I know many people think of Georgia as a red state, but nowadays it's a lot like old white people's feet: getting weirdly bluer and bluer," Wood said. "And that's mostly because Georgia's population is getting blacker and browner. ... And if those minority voters go her way, Stacey Abrams could become the first black woman elected governor of any state — any state! — which is ridiculous." He ran through Abrams' résumé, which includes a Yale Law degree, leadership of the Georgia legislature, and a series of "sexy-time" romantic suspense novels that Wood suggested could help her with a key demographic.
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