'She gave it her best': Jordan Klepper reacts to Katie Britt's disastrous SOTU response

I'm joined now by The Daily Show contributor Jordan Ker and I'm so excited to welcome him back to the show, so I've been wondering what thought bubble was going on in your head when you were watching Katie's British

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. There's a lot to unpack there, but what did you do with it? It was definitely my least favorite Tennessee Williams work, but I was glad to see it resurface again. I think, frankly, performative outrage is a skill and it's something you wear. take his first hit, which is always an exciting moment for a performer, as a failed actor I know what it's like to be given a shaky script and not have the skills to really communicate with my audience and I felt a certain kinship with the senator there, huh , but she did her

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, she knew who she was playing for in a strangely sexual way, most of the time it seemed like she was reaching out to America's modern republican moms with stories of human trafficking, but hey, if that's it the game plan, good luck, uh, she told a horrible story, as you mentioned, involving instant immigrants and human trafficking, she strongly implied that it happened in the United States under the Joe Biden administration, it actually happened in Mexico when George W.

Bush was president, so let's listen to what he said Thursday night and how he tried to clean it up this morning, we wouldn't agree with this happening in a third world country, this is the United States of America and , in my opinion, it is a hobby that we start acting like one, president. Biden's border policies are a disgrace. Did you want to give the impression that this horrible story occurred under President Biden? Look, I mean, it's a horrible story, um, but she clearly got into trouble there. I mean, how do you feel about seeing that she cleared things up for everyone and what do you think I mean because you spent so much time? with the magga voters at the rallies, how do you think they digested her performance and even her cleanliness this morning?

Well, I don't think many people pay attention to cleanliness. It's one thing to be on Fox News and Sunday morning, but many people I talk to at Maga events have only seen the out-of-context clip they put online, so yeah, I think it got the headlines it did. needed. She spoke with fear. She spoke indignantly. She had the headlines. I think they were digested in the atmosphere. This follow-up, uh, what happened this morning, I think is compelling. I'm happy to see the media reject that narrative, but again, that's not how people digest The Narrative, they digest the initial tidbit and move on, so I think probably from their perspective in many ways, mission accomplished, it's crazy to say, but you talk to a lot of these voters now, before Super Tuesday, you ventured to a Nikki Haley rally in North Carolina and I want to play a little bit of you talking to a Haley voter about why she would still support to Donald Trump in a general election just to give everyone a taste of what you witness there why can't you just end Donald Trump it's fair and there are cases of sex and all that I mean come on just the fact that you have all the criminal stuff it's crazy it's crazy no one should support him for president no yeah but if it's him against Biden you'll support him for president I think so come on it was all us at that time so I mean look You talk to a lot of these voters.

I mean, what's your biggest takeaway from all those conversations you had with these Haley voters? They are horrified by Trump, but many of them would still vote for him from those you spoke to. I'm very curious about the question of where this group of voters is going. I think the big takeaway is that I think the Biden team needs to care about this. These people did not need to be explained the dangers of Donald Trump that they expressed. It's

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that many of the left-wing people I've spoken to would express their fears and anxieties, but Joe Biden is also dead in the water in his minds.

You need to articulate a vision to get them to return to that page. I expected there to be much more, much more openness to the idea of ​​accepting someone outside of their original party, but when we pressed, a lot of people said they wouldn't vote, but most again knew they didn't want to support. a Donald Trump presidency but not being able to afford to support the idea of ​​Joe Biden as president, so we came away feeling like Joe Biden needs to start reaching out to these voters, or find a whole new option because the Joe Biden in his mind. he's one that uh, they won't be very supportive of seeing him well, before I let you go real quick, everyone wants to know how much John Stewart is going to talk about Katie Britt tomorrow night, what should we expect?

Well, it's just me. I'm always excited to go to morning meetings, where we can digest the news of the day or the weekend, and that's what I have the best job in the world, where we all sit around a table and can watch the chaos around us and and make lots of lovely, insightful, thoughtful jokes Andor uh cry to the gods for the things we saw, so uh I I I I definitely assume that tomorrow there will be a little chat with the British senator on The Daily Show I I bet we'll work hard last week, we'll all be tuned in of course Jordan Ker, thank you so much for your time, I really appreciate it and I love all the things you do, it's very interesting.