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On Sunday, John Oliver devoted the highest of Final Week Tonight to the first elections occurring throughout the nation.
“On Tuesday, all of those states held their primaries leading to, amongst different issues, Madison Cawthorn shedding his—that means he has now formally set a document for shortest time period to ever be served by a little bit bitch,” joked the late-night host.
Sure, after the junior congressman was taken down by his personal occasion through a sequence of leaked photographs and a weird intercourse tape—after he’d spun a tall story about being invited to cocaine orgies by members of his personal occasion—Cawthorn was despatched packing. Now he has loads of time to discover his Hitler fetish.
However Oliver mentioned “probably the most consequential information” got here out of Pennsylvania, the place within the race for governor, Doug Mastriano, a Trump favourite who promoted the lie that Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 presidential election on account of widespread election fraud and took half within the Capitol rebel of Jan. 6 received the GOP nomination.
“Yeah. He marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6—one thing that’s change into a bizarre level of delight for Republicans,” mentioned Oliver. “It’s like listening to somebody brag that they had been on the boat the night time Natalie Wooden died. I don’t know what’s extra troubling there: that you just suppose that makes you sound good, or that some individuals may really agree with you.”
As a state senator, Mastriano held hearings on nonexistent 2020 election fraud—that includes the president’s unhinged consigliere Rudy Giuliani—and in late March bragged about how he may manipulate election outcomes.
“I may decertify each machine within the state with the stroke of a pen through my secretary of state,” Mastriano bragged on The Bombeck Present. “I have already got the secretary of state picked out. It’s a world-class person who is aware of voting integrity higher than anybody else within the nation, I feel, and I have already got a workforce that’s gonna be constructed round that particular person.”
“Wow. That's ominous, as a result of I don’t know who he’s received in thoughts, however I do know there isn't a method that they’re a world-class particular person as a result of 1) anybody Mastriano likes is straight away suspicious; and a couple of) the one actually world-class individuals on the planet are Dolly Parton and… finish of record.”
Mastriano can be a gun nut who helps a “whole ban on abortions” with no exceptions, together with rape, incest, or circumstances the place the mom may die. Oh, and he participated in a convention that includes distinguished QAnon crazies—the place he was introduced onstage with a shiny sword.