
He may be on break from his show this week, but Jimmy Kimmel isn’t exactly lounging on the beach.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host was in his hometown of Las Vegas Monday, helping to support the Democratic ticket alongside his old family friend and Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen.
Kimmel made several campaign stops with Rosen Monday.
Visiting a Harris Campaign field office within sight of the house he grew up in, he spoke to a group of volunteer door-knockers, thanking them for their work.
“This state, and this city is so important,” he told them. “Las Vegas could decide, obviously whether Jacky Rosen is re-elected, but could decide what happens in the whole country.”
Rosen is locked in a tight race against Republican challenger Sam Brown.
Speaking to a group of Culinary Workers Union members at another stop, Kimmel shared a story about how his father worked as a waiter at a Trump building in New York, where every morning he served Donald Trump’s father breakfast—and every morning., Fred Trump gave him a measly five cent tip.
“When when these people—Donald Trump and Sam Brown—tell you that they’re on your side and they care about you, remember that,” Kimmel told the group.
“I know that Donald Trump comes to Las Vegas. And i know that thousands of people come to see him, and they cheer for him. And I know that when Donald Trump wakes up in the morning at one of our hotels, probably his own, and he looks at his bed and there’s orange makeup all over the pillow, do you think he leaves a twenty dollar bill on that bed? I would bet every dollar that he doesn’t.”
Although the late-night hosts of old tended to keep their personal politics under wraps, recent years have seen hosts like Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Andy Cohen throw their weight behind their favored candidates at both a local and national level.
Kimmel, who participated in fundraising efforts earlier this year for Joe Biden, supported Rosen in her successful first run for Senate in 2018, and worked with her on Nevada get-out-the-vote efforts during the 2000 presidential election.