“The Nightly Show” suspended its coverage of the GOP presidential race on Wednesday night for host Larry Wilmore to explore the biggest threat to the campaign of current Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
A poll released Tuesday showed Sanders pulling ahead of the former secretary of state for the first time among likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, the country’s first primary.
“Oh my God! Oh no! Is this happening again? A candidate of passion is about to overtake Hillary? She’s about to get Obama’d by an old white man,” Wilmore said. “It is one thing for a cool brother to just burst into the scene and all that brotherness just fills out on the campaign trail. That’s just science. But when people are more inspired by a guy who looks like the about-to-retire dean of students at Oberlin, I gotta ask: What the hell is going on?”
But Wilmore had critiques for Sanders’ campaign.
“Also keeping it at 100, based on the demographics, if Bernie Sanders rallies were a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, it would be ‘Nilla, Please,’ ” Wilmore said. “The chocolate is in there but you gotta eat a lot of vanilla to get there.”
Watch the episode, from Comedy Central, below:
