CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders to The Late Show for the nineteenth and hopefully final time on Tuesday for an obnoxiously long, four-segment softball interview covering everything from Colbert’s employer to Venezuela to Minnesota to socialism.
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Finally, Colbert gushed, “This is a red-letter day for you. Here you are administering the oath of office to Mayor Mamdani and I just—you’ve been fighting, you've been carrying the banner of democratic socialists for a long time. What was that like to swear in the first democratic socialist mayor of a major city?”
After Sanders claimed, “It was enormously gratifying,” Colbert added, “In a recent poll, a recent Gallup poll, 66 percent of Democrats had a favorable view of democratic socialism. Up significantly over the last year. Why do you think that is?”
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