Jimmy Kimmel has exposed how little Americans actually know about their Presidential elections in a series of bizarre interviews.
The US talk show host was left tearful after it was declared that Donald Trump was victorious over Kamala Harris and won the 2024 US election.
After gaining a conclusive lead overnight, Trump passed the threshold of 270 electoral votes in the very early hours of the morning in America.
But several hours later, and it seems a lot of Americans had no idea what was going.
For his late night programme on Wednesday, Kimmel shared a clip where his team interviewed a series of unsuspecting average people about their plans for voting – a whole day after votes closed.
He explained: ‘We went out on the street today, and we asked people if they voted today and of course the election was yesterday but did our fellow Americans know that? Well, let’s find out.’
The interviews that followed revealed plenty of people had no idea about the historic moment that had happened, and still thought they had a chance to vote for Harris.
One person was asked, on the day after voting, if they were planning on voting today, to which they quickly replied: ‘Yes.’
When asked if they knew where their polling station was, they said: ‘It’s… by my house,’ and claimed there were ‘big lines’ at the polling station today.
‘You need to make sure you stay [in line] and vote, even if that line is a little long, you’ve just got to stay in that line,’ they said.
They then said they think Joe Biden ‘has a chance’ – clearly oblivious to the fact that the former President wasn’t even running.
And it’s not just politics they were clueless on.
When asked if they were planning on changing their clocks back next weekend, they answered ‘yes’, even though clocks had already gone back the weekend before…
Another interviewee said they were ‘excited but very nervous as well’, and didn’t have any predictions (despite the results having been announced).
‘I’ve been watching the news and it’s hard to say what’s going to happen.’
They then claimed they were a ‘news junkie’ who reads a lot ‘on the internet’, watches NBC and a ‘little bit of Fox’.
Somehow though, they’d managed to miss what was all over the internet, NBC and Fox, for the past day.
A third person stopped on the street said they were voting for Harris ‘today’, with the interviewer sarcastically replying: ‘Great, she could use that vote.’
When asked if Harris could ‘get it done’, they replied: ‘I hope so, I believe in you, we believe in you, you can do it, you’ve got this.’
One person was completely honest about their voting intentions… and their conspiracy theories.
They bluntly replied that they weren’t voting, explaining: ‘I don’t believe in voting, I don’t really think our vote matters, I think it’s the higher ups at Wall Street that pick whatever is happening, period.’
Another, with the interviews being recorded after the voting results, claimed she’d be watching at home with her boyfriend when the votes came out.
She then went on to throw her boyfriend under the bus, saying he would be voting today, hours after the polling stations closed.
‘Good luck with the election, I really hope you win,’ she then told Harris, through the camera.
