Ronny Chieng takes up Don Jr.'s Ohio statehood warning

The Daily Show's election-day roundup moves from polling-place obstacles to candidate beauty contests, then sends its correspondents out to invade voters' privacy.

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Election Day Features Voter in Labor, Hot Dems & Don Jr. Warning of Ohio Statehood | The Daily Show

Ohio is already a state. That small obstacle doesn't stop Ronny Chieng from considering Donald Trump Jr.'s warning that Democrats want to make it one.

"They want to make Ohio a state," Trump Jr. says in the rally footage. Chieng treats the apparent slip as an invitation to reconsider the whole arrangement: "Politics aside, Ohio should not be a state."

The exchange sits at the center of The Daily Show's election-day segment, which drew about 2.6 million views since yesterday. Unlike the show's earlier roundtable about Trump's rally rhetoric, this is Chieng at the desk, assembling the day's oddities before Grace Kuhlenschmidt and Troy Iwata take the comedy onto New York's streets.

He begins with the practical difficulties of voting, including a Kansas woman who went into labor while casting an early ballot. A clip of Haley Stevens avoiding reporters' questions follows, with the show's description framing her support for Republican Mike Rogers as another political reversal.

Then the questions become considerably less consequential. Donald Trump is asked to identify his best-looking administration official, and Chieng examines a Democratic super PAC video selling candidates on their appearance. The juxtaposition gives both parties' image-making a turn under the studio lights.

Kuhlenschmidt and Iwata finish with a satirical exit-polling exercise that mistakes access to a voter for permission to ask anything. Their questions grow aggressively personal, turning the familiar election-night street interview into a sketch about boundaries the interviewers cannot seem to recognize.

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The election-day segment drew millions of views, and its first-day comment count was three times the show's usual level.

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14,100,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

10,129,722,413

views per day

28,833,537

typical day: 8,509,564

the video

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2,755,495

likes

42,507

comments

1,735

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1

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