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Michael Kosta turns Trump's Husted compliments into a mock campaign ad

The Daily Show's midterm roundup moves from an Ohio attack ad to a local candidate interview before giving Trump's rally remarks a parody treatment.

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0:26Kosta introduces "The Midyssey," beginning with Ohio's gubernatorial campaign.
1:15A campaign ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother prompts Kosta's commentary.
2:59Jaime West's halting candidate interview shifts into a detailed answer about taxes.
6:16Rally footage shows Trump repeatedly commenting on Jon Husted's physique.
8:58The segment closes with a fictional Husted campaign commercial.

Donald Trump's description of examining Jon Husted's physique gives Michael Kosta an unusually specific campaign message to work with. Instead of policies or qualifications, The Daily Show's mock Senate ad builds its pitch around the Ohio Republican's backside.

The setup comes from rally footage, not an impersonation. "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body," Trump says in one clip. Kosta strings together the president's remarks about male Republican candidates, then supplies the fictional campaign commercial. It is the final stretch of a broader midterm segment, rather than the whole video its headline might suggest.

Earlier, Kosta covers a pro-Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother. That section has become a focus of the comments: viewers ask the show to give fuller context to Acton's estrangement, and some request that she appear as a guest. Those requests are distinct from the rally jokes that close the segment.

Between the Ohio stories comes footage of Fayette County candidate Jaime West giving a disjointed interview, then switching to a detailed answer about taxes. Kosta treats the contrast as the joke; the video's suggestion of drunkenness is his characterization, not an established explanation for the interview.

The upload has drawn about two million views. Its campaign material also appears in the channel's subsequent roundup alongside Jon Stewart and Ronny Chieng.

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