Days after defeating Texas Attorney General and Republican Ken Paxton for a U.S. Senate seat as part of a historic Election Day shift in state leadership, Democrat U.S. Senator-elect James Talarico popped up on the national stage Saturday.
Those watching Saturday Night Live were treated to a Talarico appearance, as the Round Rock-born politician invaded the show’s cold open. The appearance came just hours after the Senator-elect paid a visit to the memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
‘SNL’ cold open
The cold open on Saturday’s edition of SNL started with appearances by Kenan Thompson’s Hakeem Jeffries (U.S. Rep., New York) and Sarah Sherman’s Chuck Schumer (U.S. Sen., New York), gloating about the Democratic Party’s victories Tuesday night, before James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump slid into frame.
Austin Johnson’s Trump went on about the invasion of “Dumbocrats,” but more specifically, millennial politicians bringing cringe back to Washington, D.C…