Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher admitted on Friday that his vote would be “in play” in coming elections if the Democratic Party continued its headlong gallop toward socialism.
Maher spoke with Vice President JD Vance on Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time,” and the discussion turned to the recent wins — particularly in places like New York City — racked up by fringe Left candidates endorsed by Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this Democratic socialist — this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons…” “If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” Maher declared.
“Okay, I like to hear that,” Vance replied.
“It actually always has been,” Maher continued. “I just, every year, I don’t make my decision by who has an R or a D, I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better and voted for them. And Trump can’t run again and he’d be a little too exciting for me anyway. So it’s either going to be you or Rubio.”
Maher underscored his point by jabbing at one of the Mamdani-backed Democratic socialist candidates who recently won her primary in New York — Darializa Avila Chevalier.
TRUTH NUKE: Bill Maher on Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier: “There’s one candidate she will be a congresswoman from New York’s 13th District, who the New York Times asked her if someone mu*ders someone randomly should they go to jail? Couldn’t get her to say yes to… pic.twitter.com/6zlnqGZKTz
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“There’s one candidate, she will be a congressperson from New York’s 13th District, who the New York Times asked her if someone murders someone randomly should they go to jail? Couldn’t get her to say yes to that,” Maher said. “She says, no more police ever at all. Ever. She says our veterans are war criminals. She said f*ck Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s a rapist.”
“So there is a woke mind virus, and I think we found patient zero,” Maher concluded.
And Maher is far from the only Democrat in the public eye raising concerns about the rapid influx from the party’s fringes: “The View” host Sara Haines raised the same issue during a recent “Behind the Table” podcast with executive producer Brian Teta and cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin.
💥NEW: ‘The View’ Co-Host Sara Haines on Dem Socialist wins: “For the Republicans, this is a GIFT! … We’re writing the commercials pretty much for the GOP. The Democrats are literally just teeing up exactly how EVERY Democrat is gonna be framed!” pic.twitter.com/lnBEE5Xbe0
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“For the Republicans, this is a gift,” she said, arguing that Republicans would use the most radical positions taken by the Democratic socialists and paint all Democrats with the same broad brush.
“We’re writing the commercials pretty much for the GOP. The Democrats are literally just teeing up exactly how every Democrat is gonna be framed!” she said.
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