Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
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Finally, on NBC’s Late Night, Seth Meyers despaired, “Democrats, are you seeing this? Why are you caving to this guy? In a span of, like, five days, he got crushed at elections, got booed at a football game, fell asleep in a meeting, and you guys saw that and thought, ‘There's no way we can beat this guy. He's at the top of his game.’”
After a clip of Sen. Angus King claiming the shutdown wasn’t achieving its goals, Meyers said the quiet part out loud, “What do you mean it didn't work? Aren't his poll numbers at an all-time low? Didn't you just win a bunch of elections or did I hallucinate all of that?”
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