Jimmy Kimmel claimed that Kid Rock won a seat in the Senate and people believed it

You may have seen the special episode of the midterm elections of https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/jimmy-kimmels-told-kids-ate-halloween-candy-prank/story ? id = 58923040 celebrates "Lie Witness News" on Tuesday night.

For the segment's special edition, where the comedian claims that something weird happened in the news to see how many people believe him, Kimmel had a correspondent who was telling the people that Kid Rock had been elected to the Senate.

"Last year, you may remember that Kid Rock announced his candidacy for the Senate and that, of course, it was a publicity stunt, so we went into the street and we announced to his readers that Kid Rock had won the Senate special election.We even showed them images of Kid Rock in concert and told them that it was his victory speech, " we read in the description of the video on YouTube.

In offering the clip Tuesday night, Kimmel said, "Watch as real people argue for a false election."

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As usual, unsuspecting people on the street pretended to say that they "had heard about it a bit today in the morning," while others commented the false aspects of his so-called victory speech.

There were also people totally stunned by the prospect of Kid Rock as an American senator: "So he won? Wow," said one person.

Others were also bewildered by the assertion of the street reporter that he had a project to legalize crystal methamphetamine.

The video ends with a montage of people addressing the "new senator".

"Senator Joonbug Finnegan [Kid Rock’s real name according to the reporter]I do not really listen to you, but good luck as a senator, "said a woman at the end.

The real name of Rock is actually Robert James Ritchie.