EU Commissioner: I Get All My U.S. Politics From 'The Daily Show'

Margrethe Vestager may have turned 47 this year, but she gets her news like many millennials.

The European Union's commissioner for competition said she follows U.S. political news by watching "The Daily Show," Comedy Central's left-leaning, satirical news program. 

"I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show,'" Vestager said in an interview with The Huffington Post on Thursday.

She said she'd counted down the days until the show's new host, Trevor Noah, took over. Noah's arrival was met with limited fanfare  this week. 

"The Daily Show" ranked as more trusted than distrusted among millennials in a Pew Research Center poll published  in June.

An academic survey in 2012 found that people who only watched "The Daily Show" were relatively well-informed news consumers , able to correctly answer more questions about current events than people who only listened to talk radio or people who only watched MSNBC , CNN or Fox News .

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