Jimmy Kimmel says it is 'unimaginable' that 'close to half of American voters' voted Trump

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Jimmy Kimmel has said that it is "unimaginable" that "close to half of American voters" voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

"I have to say, I am very happy and relieved that it looks like we're finally sending this monster back to Mar-A-Lago," Kimmel said, per Vanity Fair. "But I'm also shocked that it was this close."

In the video below, Trump falsely claims that he has won the 2020 election: 
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The news outlet reported that the turnout for the 2020 election was the highest in 100 years and resulted in record voting totals for Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

At the time of writing, per the Guardian, Biden has received a record 72 million-plus votes while Trump also received a record-breaking near-69 million votes, marking a considerable increase from the votes he received in 2016.

"It is unimaginable to me that close to half of American voters saw what this man has done to this country over the last four years," Kimmel said before listing a number of Trump's actions that, in his mind, make him an unfit president.

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"He Kowtowed to Vladimir Putin," Kimmel said. "He cozied up to Kim Jong Un. He alienated us from our allies. He put children in cages. He villainized the press, hid his tax returns. He tear-gassed peaceful protestors. He pardoned his criminal buddies. He extorted Ukraine. He misled us about COVID. He dismantled the Pandemic Response Team. He dismantled healthcare. He called neo-Nazis 'very fine people.' He hired a never-ending parade of imbeciles. He lied, lied, lied, and lied, and then he lied some more."

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"He is a liar and a cheat who wants them to stop counting thousands of legitimate votes - and almost half us are apparently okay with that," Kimmel concluded. "Half of us want it to keep going for four more years."

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Kimmel said that supporting Biden wasn't the point of this election.

"I don't care what you think of Joe Biden," he added. "If Joe Biden stopped by my house every morning to key my car and pee in my pool, there still would be no question which one of them I'd vote for. None."

Kimmel then asked his viewers the following question: "What more did Donald Trump have to do to show us that he's insane? And not fit to lead this country?"

"I feel like I overestimated the American people," he added, before joking, "and I underestimated The Village People."