Stephen Colbert talks about the ‘wicked step-president’ and midterms

With the midterm elections coming, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert told a tale of two presidents, and called out one in particular.

In case you haven’t noticed, the midterms are now less than two weeks away. Although The Late Show with Stephen Colbert didn’t focus on them too much in the first bit of the opening monologue on last night’s show, that doesn’t mean that they didn’t provide plenty of fodder for the jokes anyway.

After all, both the previous and current president are on the campaign trail for their respective parties, and with that comes fodder, to put it mildly. At least there are references to 2015 to keep things a little lighter.

Check out the clip below:

Yeah, Colbert went there.

To further elaborate on whom Barack Obama was campaigning for, as Colbert said, he was in Nevada. Perhaps most immediately important is the Senate race there, as Time notes in its writeup of the event. However, as with the elections in most of the other states, there’s just more than one important race to be had there. In case you’re wondering, though, Real Clear Politics has the Senate election as a toss-up race, and there hasn’t been enough polling to rank the governor’s race. As a result, RCP has it averaged out to a tie. Although Time describes the rally as “fiery,” most of the clips Colbert showed weren’t fiery so much as relatively subtle burns, considering that this is an era in which nicknames like “Lyin’ Ted” are commonplace.

Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz, however, the clips of Donald Trump that Colbert used to illustrate his points (and dub Trump “our wicked step-president”) came from a rally held in Texas to support the senator in his re-election campaign against Rep. Beto O’Rourke. Although Colbert (rightly) focused on the “nationalist” comments (although the ensuing joke perhaps wasn’t the best to make), the Washington Post detailed more of what Trump had to say down in Texas. RCP ranks this Senate race as Leans GOP, with Cruz leading O’Rourke by an average of seven points according to the latest polls.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights on CBS.