CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill to Monday’s taping of The Late Show for some mutual back patting, where Colbert praised Sherrill’s “curb stomping” of her opponent while she portrayed him as a free speech martyr who got cancelled because of President Trump.
Colbert wondered, “Well, you sure did because you won by 56.9 percent to 42.5 percent, which is 14.4 points, which political experts call—have a term for—it’s called ‘a curb stomping.’ November 4th was big for you, Abigail Spanberger, and Zohran Mamdani here in the city. What ideas—what do you think—you think there's a commonality between any of those victories?”
Sherrill had a typical politician’s cliché-ridden response, “Yeah, I think fighting hard for people, listening to people on the ground, and delivering on a different vision than what is being presented by the president in Washington and people—I think right now these are scary times, and to navigate these is going to take some real leadership.”
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. steve malzberg
