Kate McKinnon plays an anxious and desperately ingratiating Hillary Clinton on “Saturday Night Live” in the lead-up to next week’s crucial New York primary. Grudgingly admitting that she’s lost in the voting in seven states straight (evidenced by an equal number of holes in her wall), she pulls out all the stops to win over New Yorkers (except the young ones) and tells Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon to “drive off another cliff.”

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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