Stephen Colbert helps Kirsten Gillibrand avoid Hillary Clinton’s mistake

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On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announced that she’s running for president in 2020. To help her out on the campaign trail, Colbert had a few gifts — one of them very important. In addition to corn on the cob for when she’s in Iowa, a piece of granite for New Hampshire and mustard-based barbecue sauce for South Carolina, Colbert gave Gillibrand a plane ticket to Michigan in the hope that she doesn’t make the same mistake Hillary Clinton made in 2016: Michigan was one of the states that Clinton barely bothered to campaign in but that could have swayed the election in her favor.

Though Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro have already announced their intentions to run in 2020, Gillibrand has set herself apart. Warren announced in an Instagram video and Castro in a speech in his hometown of San Antonio, but Gillibrand is the first to announce on The Late Show, and Colbert had a singular gift to mark the occasion.

“We got you this coveted pin,” Colbert said handing her the object. “It’s a one-of-a-kind so far, and it’s ‘I announced on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’ It’s a collectors’ item.”

Colbert also talked to Gillibrand about her use of colorful language. She made headlines in 2017 for dropping multiple F-bombs at the Personal Democracy Forum, though in a Late Show appearance in 2018 she told Colbert she had given up swearing for Lent. On Tuesday night, she said she was going to “definitely try” not to swear while campaigning. When asked what word she’ll miss the most, she said that it “rhymes with duck.”

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 on CBS.

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