Bill Maher Reveals Reason He Would Vote for a Republican President

Proud Democrat Bill Maher is revealing the reason he’d cross the political divide and vote for a Republican for president.

“If this is where the Democratic party is going… this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, with they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons, if this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” Maher, 70, told Vice President JD Vance on the Friday, June 26, episode of his HBO Max show Real Time with Bill Maher.

“It’s either going to be you or Rubio,” the comedian continued, referring to former senator Marco Rubio, who memorably — and somewhat viciously — ran against President Trump in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election but who now serves as secretary of state under Trump’s second administration.

Maher’s claims about the so-called direction of the Democratic party come after a slew of wins for politicians running as Democratic Socialists, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and newly-elected members of Congress Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Aber Kawas and Brad Lander.

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“Here’s my dealbreaker for your side,” Mayer continued to Vance, 41, before describing the reason why a Republican candidate would not — could not — secure his vote. “Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes that an election can be, either we win or they cheated. That s*** has to stop. And that means the person who has to stop it will be you, or Marco. Can you tell me you will do that?”

Trump has repeatedly claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election against former President Joe Biden despite losing the popular and electoral votes. The president and other high-level administration officials have claimed the election was “rigged” despite failing to provide a shred of evidence proving election fraud.

Instead of promising to stop lying about potential election outcomes, Vance doubled down on election fraud conspiracy theories, which have become popular among MAGA Republicans and conservatives. (According to one CNN poll, nearly 70 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters believe the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” and Biden’s win was not legitimate.)

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“OK, Bill, so this is where I’m probably going to lose ya there,” Vance responded. “I don’t think we should not concede elections, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on … The biggest criticism I had of the 2020 election is that you had technology companies that were quite literally censoring negative information about the left and promoting negative information about the right.” (According to Media Matters, a progressive research center that monitors right-wing online content, engagement data from that time period shows that Facebook and other social media platforms promoted right-leaning content more than left-leaning content.)

“Well, you’re going to get a big pat on the back when you go back to the White House,” Maher retorted.