“You won,” said the “Late Show” host of the president-elect.
The president-elect’s lawsuit alleges that the defendants favored the vice president “through use of a leaked and manipulated” poll.
“It’s true, the Des Moines Register leaked its poll where you least expect it — in the Des Moines Register,” Colbert joked.
Trump seeks “accountability for brazen election interference” over the Nov. 2 poll that showed Harris ahead of him by 3 percentage points in the state, according to the legal filing.
“So now it’s interference just to get a prediction wrong? Well in that case, Punxsutawney Phil, you better lawyer up, buttercup,” quipped Colbert on the iconic groundhog, whose forecasting skills haven’t been all that accurate.
“If the president thinks he can bully the media into never saying anything bad about him, well,” said Colbert before he ripped off his glasses and looked into the camera only to swiftly change the topic.
“What else is going on?”
Check out more of Colbert’s Wednesday monologue below.
