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Jordan Klepper asks what "communism" means on Trump's campaign trail

The Daily Show's Red Flags special contrasts rally loyalty with gas-station complaints and one former supporter's change of party.

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Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Red Flags | The Daily Show

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0:58Ohio and Nebraska rally attendees describe their loyalty to Trump as unconditional.
3:07Gas-station interviews shift the focus to rising fuel prices and responsibility for them.
4:45Klepper asks rallygoers to define the communism and socialism they oppose; several struggle to explain.
10:50Texas voters criticize Talarico's language about God, prompting Klepper to probe their assumptions.
18:55Wayne DiMario recounts his fiancée's deportation despite years of following immigration guidelines.
20:12DiMario reveals his Democratic registration and urges acceptance of regretful former Trump voters.

Loyalty comes easily. Definitions take longer. Jordan Klepper finds Trump rally attendees ready to denounce communism and socialism, but less prepared to explain what those words mean.

That gap is a central thread of "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Red Flags | The Daily Show," a satirical reporting special following the Republican campaign trail ahead of the midterms. Rather than offering an election forecast, Klepper tests campaign messages against the answers people give him face to face.

In Ohio and Nebraska, he encounters supporters who describe their allegiance as unconditional. "We're always loyal to Trump, regardless," one attendee says. Away from the rally venues, gas-station interviews bring a different emphasis: drivers discussing rising fuel prices and whom they hold responsible.

The Texas portion turns to Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico's Senate contest. Klepper examines criticism of Talarico's description of God in nonbinary terms, then follows the argument into increasingly literal questions about God's physical attributes. The comedy comes from pushing a campaign talking point beyond the slogan.

Florida supplies a more personal account of political reconsideration. In a guitar shop, Wayne DiMario tells Klepper that his Cuban-born fiancée was deported despite following immigration guidelines for more than two decades. DiMario says he has registered with the Florida Democratic Party and asks others to welcome former Trump supporters who regret their votes.

His changed registration gives Klepper's question about Republican loyalty a concrete answer: for this voter, the consequences of immigration policy changed his allegiance.

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