Seth Meyers moves from Colom's win to Democrats' no-shows

An election-night "wow" montage supplies the comedy before A Closer Look turns to the missed Hegseth impeachment vote.

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GOP Infighting After Scott Colom Wins Mississippi, Dems Miss Hegseth Impeachment Vote: A Closer Look

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The celebration has a limit. Seth Meyers follows Democrats' midterm victories with a less triumphant subject: colleagues who failed to show up for the vote to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

His A Closer Look segment has drawn about two million views, far beyond the show's usual first-day audience. It begins with Republicans' pre-election confidence, then lets Steve Kornacki supply the punctuation. A montage of the election analyst repeatedly saying "Wow" prompts Meyers to compare him to Owen Wilson.

The centerpiece is Scott Colom's Mississippi Senate victory over Cindy Hyde-Smith. Meyers highlights the reversal: Hyde-Smith previously blocked Colom's nomination to become a federal judge; the segment now shows him winning her Senate seat. News footage identifies him as Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction.

From there, Meyers connects another Democratic victory to Hegseth. Nancy Lacore, shown winning South Carolina's 1st District, says the defense secretary removed her from her Navy position. The segment then reaches the failed impeachment measure, with House Democrats criticizing colleagues who missed the vote.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers the plainest version of that frustration: "We got to clock in and do our work here." After the elaborate election-night montage, the closing argument is about the considerably simpler task of being present.

The channel's separate monologue, "Trump Posts About His Tax Returns and Republicans Losing in the Midterms," also passed a million views. A shorter Hegseth excerpt drew an unusually large audience for the show's Shorts, giving this edition of A Closer Look a life beyond the full segment.

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The numbers

A Closer Look drew a much larger first-day audience than the show's regular uploads usually receive. Comments also arrived at nearly three times the usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

106,568

this video

1,914,660

subscribers

5,330,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

4,308,702,003

views per day

9,382,753

typical day: 2,355,371

the video

views

2,049,201

likes

41,362

comments

2,517

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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3,330,000

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As of November 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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