and mark leibovich!s is "the daily show with trevor noah." ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> trevor: what's going on, everybody? welcome to "the daily show." i'm trevor noah. thank you so much for tuning in. thank you coming out in person. it's good to be here right now! [cheers and applause] we are going to have so much fun. take a seat, everybody. we've got a great show. all the big postelection day news, republicans won but somehow also lost. donald trump is throwing melania under the bus and and slavery is now illegal almost everywhere. so let's do this, people. let's jump straight into all the results in another edition of "votedemic 2022." ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] so, going into last night's midterms, almost everyone was expecting a huge night for republicans, a "red wave" that would wash away the democrats in congress and yank off joe biden's swim trunks so everyone could see his old man butt. but now, the votes are in, and already, people are realizing that although there's still a lot left to count,