Saturday Night Live took on the Republicans’ lineup of high-profile midterm candidates Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz and Kari Lake, skewering them for their lack of experience and extremist ideas even as they have a good shot at winning their races, driven by their celebrity status.
The cold open was a satire on PBS NewsHour, with Heidi Gardner as Judy Woodruff interviewing all three candidates. Throughout, Walker, the GOP candidate for a Georgia U.S.
Senate seat, keeps calling her “Judas,” while she calmly poses questions about the campaign. At one point, Woodruff asks, “A second woman has now claimed you paid for an abortion, and your ex-wife has once said you once held a gun to her head.
Why are millions of Georgia residents still voting for you?” “Gas,” Walker, played by Kenan Thompson, responds. “Yeah, Ok. Gas prices are high, but is there more to it than that?” “Well, of course there is,” Walker answers. “Look, I’m fine.
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