Oh ok...smirk...giggle...snicker
Maybe. "Was this the last dirty trick up their sleeve," would have to be operative question. Was this election going to be the last Rather was going to be able to influence from an anchor's chair?
Was it last," as in "I felt I had no other choice," or "I could see no alternative?" Perhaps more prophetically, "I found the my socks in the last place I looked."
HF