CBS’s Stephen Colbert once again turned The Late Show into The Late DNC Show on Tuesday as he invited Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman to the program to beg reluctant voters to pick Kamala Harris in two weeks.
With the context that Fetterman’s career began with a one-vote mayoral victory, Colbert opened up the floor, “Do you have anything to say to the people out there who might be feeling a little weary of politics and are thinking about staying home and not voting at all?”
Fetterman urged, “Quite literally, I wouldn't have the honor of sitting in this chair next to you if one single person stayed home that day in May of 2005 and I won by one literal vote and if that didn't happen, the chain was broken and I never would've have had the career. I wouldn't be that Pennsylvania senator and I wouldn't be able to make sure that Kamala Harris is going to be our next president, going across Pennsylvania to make sure that happens.”
Colbert then sought to do more strategizing, “Is there early voting in Pennsylvania? Do you know, senator, does Pennsylvania have early voting?”
Fetterman took the opportunity to remind people what he considered to be a blot on Trump’s first term, “Yes. They do, absolutely. In fact, when I was lieutenant governor, Governor Wolf put that in and it made it possible to really do that during the pandemic as well too. People can't forget that too. That’s part of why would anybody go back to Trump in 2020? That was the pandemic. We couldn't be doing this right now four years ago, having this conversation.”
Colbert then moved onto the matter of how Pennsylvania counts their votes, deciding not the counter that the present conversation would not be happening four years ago regardless of who the president was and proving, yet again, late night is where Democrats go for free air time and friendly interviews.
Here is a transcript for the October 22-taped show:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
10/23/2024
12:18 AM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: Do you have anything to say to the people out there who might be feeling a little weary of politics and are thinking about staying home and not voting at all?
JOHN FETTERMAN: Quite literally, I wouldn't have the honor of sitting in this chair next to you if one single person stayed home that day in May of 2005 and I won by one literal vote and if that didn't happen, the chain was broken and I never would've have had the career. I wouldn't be that Pennsylvania senator and I wouldn't be able to make sure that Kamala Harris is going to be our next president, going across Pennsylvania to make sure that happens.
COLBERT: Is there early voting in Pennsylvania? Do you know, senator, does Pennsylvania have early voting?
FETTERMAN: Yes. They do, absolutely. In fact, when I was lieutenant governor, Governor Wolf put that in and it made it possible to really do that during the pandemic as well too. People can't forget that too. That’s part of why would anybody go back to Trump in 2020? That was the pandemic. We couldn't be doing this right now four years ago, having this conversation.
