Late Night Roundup: Congress Finally Does Something!

Late Night Roundup: Congress Finally Does Something!

Jon Stewart highlighted the celebrations in Washington, after the two political parties came together to pass the Medicare “Doc Fix” — and it only took 18 years since they had created the original problem itself.

Larry Wilmore highlighted the latest big leak from the Sony email hacks: Ben Affleck’s request to PBS’ genealogy show that they not reveal he had slave-owning ancestors. But as the The Nightly Show concluded — with the help of the ghostly ancestor himself — Ben has done actual movies he should be more personally ashamed about.

Seth Meyers, himself a New Hampshire native, highlighted all the presidential candidates traveling to his old home state with a new feature, “Live Free or Die Tryin’.”

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North Carolina GOP's Extremist Nominees Excite Democratic Strategists

Michele Morrow

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

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