"Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, so it comes with fries and a Coke," Stephen Colbert joked on Monday's Late Show. On Saturday, "South Carolina delivered a huge victory" to former Vice President Joe Biden. "In his victory speech, Biden came out swinging" and also "called for unity within the party," he said. "Yeah, that's right, he's an Obama-Biden Democrat — and his best hope is that you don't remember which one of those he was."
"Biden's huge win had big repercussions for other candidates," Colbert said. Tom Steyer immediately dropped out, but not before "he really cut loose" at a pre-election rally: "A white billionaire, dancing with Juvenile, to a song about butts: The 2020 campaign is officially a Mad-Lib." Then former Mayor Pete Buttigieg quit the race Sunday, followed Monday by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Colbert said farewell to the candidates then ran through Biden's unsuccessful post-South Carolina bid "to prove he was sharp and ready for Super Tuesday."
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