‘Anoth­er Pow­er­ful Evening’: Col­bert Gets Emo­tion­al At Walz Speech

After Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz accept­ed the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for vice pres­i­dent on Wednes­day, CBS’s Stephen Col­bert react­ed on a live edi­tion of The Late Show by claim­ing that day three of the DNC was “anoth­er pow­er­ful evening” that “was about remem­ber­ing that Amer­i­ca is good and that we should­n’t give in to hope­less­ness.”

Before Walz spoke, he was intro­duced by his old foot­ball team, which was almost too much for Col­bert, who brought out his foot­ball ref­er­ee whis­tle, “Then …