Tonight on Tooning Out the New'' special coverage of
the 2022 midterm election in a shocking twist.
Voters decide the future of democracy is more important than slightly cheaper eggs.
CBS News' Weijia Jiang joins us.
Plus, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna on how Democrats are adjusting priorities
now that Lauren Boebert
can't force them to recite the QAnon pledge every morning.
And Austin Sparks hosts a roundtable featuring pro-life men
debating whether a fetus is alive while using a fetus's level of brain activity.
Here with analysis is conservative Hot Take host, who's had his arms
reattached six times due to chainsaw juggling mishaps,
Tyler Templeton.
Democratic strategist who only uses the word genius to describe Pete Buttigieg's barber,
Lydia Parker.
Princeton history professor,
highlighting300 pages of unbound paper on the subway,
Dr. Ike Bloom.
Chief field correspondent, singularly
holding up a dinosaur shaped chicken nugget industry, James Smartwood, Jr.
And at the Big Board,
senior political analyst currently realizing
this life doesn't make him happy,
Ted Jaworski.
Our Tooning Out
special coverage begins right now.
From Comedy Central,
this is Tooning Out the News Election 2022.
Someone give Beto a Netflix deal already.
I'm co-anchor who gets off on ordering
highly rated sweat wicking cycling apparel,
James Smartwood.
And I'm co-anchor who thinks the midterms are my Super Bowl but I also love sports,
Kylie Weaver.
Well, tonight, Democrats are gleeful as a red wave turned out to be as strong
as the flow of oxygen to Herschel Walker's brain.
Republicans are leading the battle for the House,
but the Senate remains in the balance as the nation considers
whether the imagined fears of suburban moms outweigh
the real fears of being forced to be a mom.
An emboldened
President Biden
held a press conference to take credit for helping Democratic candidates
by never coming within 50 miles of their campaign events.
Let's bring in
CBS News' Senior White House Correspondent and Tooning Out contributor,
Weija Jiang.
Thanks for joining us Weija.
Great to be with you, Carly.
And hello to everybody.
Hello.
Weija, what was the key to the Biden administration
turning in such an unexpectedly strong performance?
Was it a mistake for Republicans
to nominate one candidate for each disorder in the DSM-5?
The White House has said from the very beginning that this is not a referendum
on President Biden.
They've been trying to really paint
a picture of what would happen if Republicans took control.
And to your point, this is now a divided Congress.
And it's not only about not being able to achieve the rest of the items
on the president's agenda, but really protecting what he has already done.
But to your point, James, it really depends on what happens in the Senate.
In fact, President Biden himself has already said if Republicans
take control of both the House and the Senate,
it is going to be a, quote, horrible two years.
Well, look, it was a great night for Republicans.
Elon Musk brought us home with his tweet to vote Republican
and his influence will grow as all the babies he fathered
with his employees start reaching voting age.
Now let's focus in on the battle for the Senate.
All eyes were on Pennsylvania,
where Democratic candidate and guy who's 23 and me came back.
Mostly henchman John Fetterman, defeated Republican candidate, giving quacks
a bad name,
Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Dr.Oz possibly hurt by voters who bought his insta-sleep super
max sleep ultra melatonin supplements and slept through the election.
That result, along with voter
repudiation of MAGA Republicans, has Trump issuing a mea culpa.
If that was Latin for Melania-culpable.
Maggie Haberman tweets: “Trump is indeed furious this morning,
particularly about men at odds and is blaming
everyone who advised him to back off, including his wife,
describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.”
Now, Weija are Republicans learning that there just
might be a political cost to nominating amoral freaks?
Republicans have felt very confident about where they were going
in these midterms for quite a while now, and that's because they've really attacked
the one thing that is on everybody's minds, regardless of whether you are
a Republican or a Democrat, and that is the economy and inflation.
Of course, this administration has really tried to point out that they are facing,
you know, global headwinds, that this is a historic pandemic,
that they're trying to recover from, and that the president's policies
will make things better
because, you know, a lot of the measures have yet to kick in.
I'm sorry but, I maintain that the number one
thing voters ask themselves before pulling that lever is
do I trust this person to savagely attack Joe Biden and his family?
Honestly, I don't have a damn clue what's going on.
If a total dreamboat sex idol like Tim Ryan can't pull off a resounding victory.
For more on that dramatic Georgia Senate race, let's go to James Smartwood
Jr., who was at the Herschel Walker for Senate headquarters.
Junior, Herschel Walker fell short on election night,
well, he changed course for the runoff election.
The Herschel Walker campaign has been shocked
as the number of embarrassing headlines increased.
So too did support for the Republican story of redemption.
So they are taking that strategy and running with it.
How so Junior?
Walker is considering a number of scandals to go public
with including, up until yesterday he believed his name was Herman.
He once told a reporter
that when his football team took a timeout during games, that time actually froze.
And whenever someone says the word head, he immediately says,
“Oh, right, that thing you hold a gun to.”
Wow, we will definitely want to follow up on that.
Thank you, Junior.
Thank you.
Let's turn now to the battle for the House of Representatives.
America will witness a rare battering ram free
influx of Trump supporters to the Capitol building this January.
Now Weija, what will Republicans do with House control besides install
an IMAX screen in the chamber for broadcasting Hunter Biden's nudes?
Well, they've already promised a flurry of investigations,
including one into Hunter Biden and his business dealings
and everything from the origins of the pandemic and how Dr.
Fauci, they claim, played a role in making decisions
about funding and the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
And so they have already said that they plan to investigate
and even try to impeach President Biden.
No word yet on how quickly the Capitol metal detector will be reprogramed
to instead detect traces of Jewish heritage.
Now for more, let's throw it over to Ted Jaworski at the Big Board.
Ted, what explains these results?
Thanks, James.
Let's take a look
at what's happening in this bellwether county
in Virginia, which really encapsulates the election results across the country.
Oh, man, I love this wonky, dorky loser stuff.
Me too.
It's just so charming to see how excited he gets about math.
It's clearly his whole life.
It's actually not my whole life.
I just do it because it's the only way to understand what's actually happening.
Otherwise, it's just overpaid
analysts talking completely unmoored from anything real.
Oh, my God.
Look at him defending math.
Yeah, math is like my hero.
Oh, maybe I should do what you all do.
“I have zero evidence to back this up, but I think voters
wanted to hear a stronger message from Democrats on crime.”
You know what I bet would make you feel better, Ted?
Telling us what's happening on the big board.
Big board!
Sorry.
We'll be checking in with Ted at the Big Board throughout the night.
I'll be here.