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Jimmy Kimmel plays the tape of Republicans swearing the midterm polls were wrong and they'd win big

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Now playing on All Clips Jimmy Kimmel plays the tape of Republicans swearing the midterm polls were wrong and they'd win big Jimmy Kimmel5 plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel rolls a montage of Republican voices predicting wins in both the House and the Senate, insisting the polling was "historically wrong" and that Paxton and Collins were "gonna win." The bit plays on what the episode title calls Trump's "huge midterm loss," and Kimmel closes it with a crack that "our asses were busy dancing all night last night."

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Who
Jimmy Kimmel
Where
monologue - Jimmy Kimmel Live
Original footage
Jimmy Kimmel Live · watch the full video from this moment
Length
51 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
5 on Instagram
Read the transcript

I'm telling you the polls are gonna be historically wrong in this midterm election The polling is wrong. The polling is inaccurate Republicans are going to win huge in November the Republicans are gonna win both the House and the Senate who's dead is gonna win Rogers is gonna win Collins is gonna win. Paxton is gonna win. Look, we're gonna win this race Texas is not gonna vote for a socialist March. John Huston is going to win. The big promise mommy is going to win. It is sanity versus insanity here and Republicans are going to win. We will hold the majority. Republicans are going to win every statewide state. We're going to give you that Trump dividend to $5 ,000 if we win and we're going to win. Republicans are going to win. I'll be the speaker in the next Congress. Just get out and vote. If you do that, we're going to win and we're going to win big. And we're going to shove it up their ass, okay? Sorry, our asses were busy dancing all night last night.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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