While all the late night hosts rejoiced on their Wednesday shows over Democrats’ Tuesday election victories, the eponymous hosts of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were especially eager to promote socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral victory.
Colbert began his ode to Mamdani by hyping the defeat of his billionaire critics, “If you've been following the election, the billionaires had the knives out for Zohran, pumping massive amounts of cash into anti-Mamdani groups. I'm talking big-roll high rollers like cosmetics heir Ron Lauder, who donated $2.16 million to stop him; hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who donated $1.75 million against them; and co-founder of Airbnb Joe Gebbia, who donated $2 million to defeat Mamdani. So it's a bad day for billionaires or, as it's also known, still a pretty good day. They’re still billionaires. Things don't really go bad for them.”
Well, not all billionaires. Alex Soros aside, Colbert rolled on, “Mamdani didn't just beat him. He murder-ized them, winning over 50 percent of the vote in an election with the most votes cast since 1969. Nice. Nice.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
