Vermont Democrat Christine Hallquist is vying to become America's first openly transgender governor. Samantha Bee's Full Frontal sent Ashley Nicole Black up to Vermont to check in on the race, and she decided to cover it as if she were making an Oscar-winning biopic of a transgender trailblazing hero. Hallquist quickly disabused her of the idea, explaining that nobody in Vermont cares about her gender — she's running on a plan to fix the state's shoddy internet. The voters Black talked to backed up that narrative. "I have to say, since I've been here, everyone seems one, very nice; two, very well informed," she told one voter. "Maybe you guys should not get internet."
"I was looking to make a movie about, like, a very cool trans woman overcoming the odds, and I guess now my movie's about a nerd bringing the internet to Vermont," Black told Hallquist. "Yeah, I like the sound of that better," she replied. And then Black went into voiceover: "And I realized that while I was looking for a villain for my movie, it turns out — Shyamalan twist — the villain was me. I was trying to make Christine fit into my story, but hers is way better."
The race is rated a likely win for Hallquist's non-villainous opponent, Gov. Phil Scott (R) — the most recent poll shows him leading by 14 percentage points.
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