Trevor Noah opened The Daily Show defending “handsome scarecrow”/Dem presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke from backlash. After raising $6.1M in the first 24 hours after declaring his White House bid – “almost enough to bribe your kids into USC” – O’Rourke now looks like a serious candidate, Noah said. But that candidacy was almost immediately by revelations of things O’Rourke has said and done.