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"What's the score?": Jon Stewart's midterm week, from pool talk to a sweep

The Daily Show's 48-minute compilation runs from Stewart's warning against counting on a blue wave to Michael Kosta covering the Democratic sweep.

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0:16Trump's speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool focuses on the pool's renovation, and Stewart reacts in disbelief.
4:18Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, followed by her tilted car video and an awkward Anderson Cooper interview.
11:32Stewart takes on cable news's poll obsession and reads a New York Times admission about polling uncertainty.
25:07Ronny Chieng covers voting day, including a woman giving birth in line, and Donald Trump Jr.'s stump speeches.
31:48Michael Kosta covers the Democratic sweep and Elon Musk's super PAC spending.
39:18Jordan Klepper covers the Republican fallout, from JD Vance on the Iran war to Anthony Constantino's victory speech.

Donald Trump's closing argument before the midterms, as The Daily Show plays it, is about pool maintenance. In a speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, he dwells on the renovation instead of policy. Jon Stewart spends the opening minutes in disbelief, at one point assuring his audience, "That is not AI."

The new upload stitches the show's election week into one long piece, and that gives it an arc a single clip cannot. Before the vote, Stewart is the skeptic in the room. He walks through Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a video shot at a tilt from inside a car ("Is her car in a ditch?"), and an awkward silence in her interview with Anderson Cooper.

Then he turns on cable news and its appetite for polls, as the coverage hops from state to state. "We don't care! What's the score?!" he shouts at the screen. Later he pleads with the networks to stop hyping polls and prediction markets, with CNN's Harry Enten and his props as Exhibit A.

Then the score arrives. Ronny Chieng takes the desk for voting day, which includes a woman giving birth in line. Michael Kosta covers election night as Democrats sweep the House and Senate, with upsets in Kansas, South Carolina and Texas, and he looks at what Elon Musk's super PAC spending bought. Jordan Klepper closes on the fallout, including JD Vance's own explanation: "The reason we lost is the war."

The show had already cut the week into shorter clips, and the Vance segment alone has passed two million views. The full version is drawing its own crowd in the comments, with more than twice the show's usual first-day count in its first 14 hours. Many play on the Reflecting Pool, and a few say they miss Stephen Colbert.

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