Last Week Tonight Recap: John Oliver Weighs In on Midterm Elections

John Oliver Breaks Down 2026 Midterm Losses for Elon Musk and Haley Stevens

John Oliver analyzes the 2026 midterm results on Last Week Tonight, highlighting Elon Musk’s $474 million spending failure and Haley Stevens' lost political gamble.

John Oliver Weighs In on Midterm Elections, Elon Musk and the Ultimate Southern Diss

“Democrats won so big on Tuesday it was sometimes genuinely hard to take all the positive results in," the 'Last Week Tonight' hosted said on Sunday's show.

John Oliver Dunks on Midterms Losers Elon Musk and Haley Stevens

After issuing an urgent warning prior to the midterms about the GOP’s increasingly troubling ties to neo-Nazis (with a little dig at Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans, of “You Can See Everything” infamy, thrown in for good measure), John Oliver returned to the “Last Week Tonight” desk on Sunday to bask in the Democrats’ blue […]

Last Week Tonight Recap: John Oliver Weighs In on Midterm Elections

John Oliver kicked off Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by running down a list of several Democratic wins from last week’s midterm elections. The show started out with a blue wave crashing through the intro before Oliver cheerfully recapped the news: “It has been a busy week and, given the midterm results, a pretty good week […]