On The Daily Show And Late Night, Four Black Comedians Savor, Take A Bow For Roy Moore Defeat

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Peter Weber), The Week
Wed, 12/13/2017 - 10:54pm

There were a lot of factors that went into Senator-elect Doug Jones' (D) upset victory in Alabama on Tuesday night — a divided Republican party, suburbanites who are fed up with President Trump, "and apparently, some people don't like accused kiddie-touchers," Trevor Noah said on Wednesday's Daily Show. "But there was one really huge factor that you can't ignore," he said: African Americans really turned out, giving Jones a higher percentage of the black vote than former President Barack Obama received. Dulce Sloan came out and explained how it wasn't just black voters, but black women, who sank Republican Roy Moore.

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