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John Oliver Warns Ahead of Midterms About GOP Nazi Ties
Oliver cited a Manhattan Institute analysis finding thirty-seven percent of the current GOP doubt the Holocaust as historians describe it; the midterms are nine days away.
On air: Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield on BBN After HoursPublished
At a glance
- First reported by Variety: “John Oliver Issues Urgent Warning Ahead of Midterms About the Republican Party’s Nazi Ties”, with reporting from Jingletree.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 26, 2026, at 2:54 AM ET on BBN After Hours, by Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: Republican, GOP.
- BBN covered this story before: Trump booty remark, El Clásico, Nicki Minaj, Elvis lawsuit (October 25).
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- VarietyJohn Oliver Issues Urgent Warning Ahead of Midterms About the Republican Party’s Nazi Ties
- JingletreeJohn Oliver Issues Urgent Warning Ahead of Midterms About the Republican Party’s Nazi Ties - Jingletree October 26, 2026 · facts used on air
What BBN said about it
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorJohn Oliver spent all of Sunday's Last Week Today on one warning, with the midterms nine days out: the Republican Party's apparent affinity for Nazis.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe asked twenty-eight GOP officials if they'd denounced a man named Marshall Rawson.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOnly three even replied, and two of them stood by him, Variety reports.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThree out of twenty-eight.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's a worse response rate than my group chat, and I post pure chaos in there. Oliver also cited a Manhattan Institute analysis saying thirty-seven percent of the current GOP doubt the Holocaust as historians describe it.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd New York candidate Peter Oberacker later said that Facebook photo of his grandfather in a Wehrmacht uniform was the only photo he had of him.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBro, the only one. Not one beach picture, not one blurry birthday. Just the uniform.
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