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The Daily Show accuses Tim Walz of stealing “every Republican schtick.”

The Daily Show accuses Tim Walz of stealing “every Republican schtick.”

The vice presidential debate left “The Daily Show” host Michal Kosta in shock, and it had nothing to do with either candidate’s policies. The senior correspondent expressed his surprise at Democratic candidate Tim Walz on Comedy Central’s live show after Tuesday night’s debate.

“Walz quotes a book that I didn’t think Democrats had ever read. I guess it’s called Bibble?” Kosta joked before switching to a clip of Walz.

“I don’t talk much about my faith, but Matthew 25:40 says, ‘You do something to me to the least of us,'” Walz said during the debate.

“Wow. Tim Walz really stole every Republican schtick. He’s folksy, he loves cars, hunting, quoting the Bible,” Kosta said. “What’s next? We’re going to find out he’s the webmaster of Nude Africa Dotcom? “

That final glimmer was a nod to Republican candidate for North Carolina governor Mark Robinson. Last month, a CNN investigation revealed that Robinson described himself as a “black Nazi!” and wrote comments supporting the reintroduction of slavery, comments that were found on various porn forums. Robinson denies it was him.

“The Daily Show” took several other shots of the two candidates, from jokingly saying that Vance and Walz “both hate Donald Trump” to a clip of them showing every time the two agreed on something Kosta as “surprising and, frankly, boring as shit.” The Tuesday night host also poked fun at Walz’s response to the hosts’ question about his claims about Tiananmen Square.

“You know you’re screwing up the Tiananmen Square issue when you look more nervous than the guy staring into the tank,” Kosta said to laughter and groans from the studio audience.

But the main subject of ridicule for “The Daily Show” was the media. Kosta began his monologue by pretending to set up the vice presidential debate before breaking into a grin and saying that “the stakes aren’t that high.”

“The only other vice presidential debate anyone remembers is when a fly got stuck on Mike Pence’s head. The bar is low,” Kosta said. Instead, he said the debate was a “historic opportunity” for the news media to “get people watching TV.”

Kosta also mocked CBS News’ addition of a QR code during the debate. After ABC faced backlash over its anchors’ live fact-checking of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, CBS used the technology to allow viewers to watch CBS reporters’ fact-checking on their cell phones.

“Yes, a QR code. Perfect journalism!” said Kosta. “If a candidate tells a lie, why should they correct it in front of the 50 million people watching live? I just have a link for the 12 nerds who bother to scan it. Should I be impressed that they have a QR code? Every asshole has a QR code.”

To prove its point, “The Daily Show” included two different custom QR codes in its opening monologue. Watch the full video above.