Trevor Noah looks at the fortunes of some of the Republican candidates, starting with the precipitous drop in the popularity of Ben Carson and then the stagnating John Kasich and Jeb Bush.

Then Jordan Klepper got his own focus group of Trump supporters to try and understand his appeal.

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