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Maher Tells Vance His 2028 Vote Is ‘In Play’ As Dems Go Full Socialist

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher told Vice President JD Vance that Republicans have a shot at his vote in 2028, but only if they stop treating every loss as proof of cheating.

The surprise admission came during Vance’s Friday appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” where the HBO host and the vice president veered from Democratic socialism to election denial, ICE, Iran, religion and the next generation of Republican leadership.

Maher framed his possible political shift around what he described as the Democratic Party’s hard-left drift.

“If this is where the Democratic Party is going — 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 began.

The longtime liberal comedian stressed that he has never treated the ballot like a team jersey.

“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,” Maher added.

But his flirtation with the GOP came with a nonnegotiable demand for Vance or Sen. Marco Rubio, who he suggested could be the party’s next standard-bearer.

“It’s either going to be you or Rubio,” Maher went on. “Here’s my deal-breaker for your side: 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?” he questioned.

Vance didn’t accept Maher’s framing, instead steering the dispute toward censorship claims surrounding the 2020 election.

“OK, Bill, so this is where I’m probably going to lose you here,” Vance replied. “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.”

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Maher pushed back by noting that claims of voter interference had already been litigated, then needled Vance for giving the White House-friendly answer.

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

The heated exchange came during an otherwise unusually chummy sit-down, with Maher praising Vance for showing up while several Democrats have kept their distance from his show.

“I’m just glad you’re talking to me, you know?” Maher said. “I mean, I say it every time. The Republicans come here, and they take their beating like a man.

“It’s the people I vote for, they’re the ones who won’t talk to me. That’s odd, isn’t it?”

The host said he has failed to land several high-profile Democrats and left-wing stars, even as Republicans continue to appear.

“I can’t get [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]. I can’t get Mamdani. I couldn’t get Kamala Harris. Took me eight years to get Obama,” Maher rattled off.

Vance had asked whether New York democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier would come on the program after her primary win over five-term Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

Maher had already used the same episode to unload on Chevalier and what he sees as the Democratic Party’s increasingly radical fringe.

“There’s one candidate, she will be a congresswoman 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 during his monologue.

The comic cast Chevalier’s platform as a symptom of a left-wing movement drifting far from mainstream voters.

“She says, No more police ever, at all, ever. She says our veterans are war criminals. She said f–k Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s a r–ist,” Maher critiqued.

Chevalier’s primary victory stunned New York politics after she defeated Espaillat, a five-term incumbent, with help from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and several progressive organizations.

Her campaign platform includes proposals for a universal healthcare system, dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement, overhauling housing policy, and implementing broad changes to the criminal justice system.

Maher zeroed in on a past interview where Chevalier was pressed multiple times on whether someone who commits an unprovoked killing should face incarceration.

He portrayed her refusal to give a blunt yes-or-no answer as the purest example of progressive excess.

“So, there is a woke mind virus,” Maher exclaimed. “And I think we found patient zero.”

Maher also pointed to Chevalier’s backing of eliminating prisons, law enforcement and national borders, as well as earlier comments in which she referred to the United States as “occupied Native land.”

“What happened is, for years, we’ve been asking young people to vote. Well, now, young people are voting, and they’re voting to abolish the police, abolish prisons, unlimited immigration, so no cops, no prisons, no borders, proving for sure that eating Tide Pods does cause brain damage,” Maher commented about the primary results.

The “Real Time” conversation also gave Vance room to promote his new book, Communion, which focuses on his adult conversion to Catholicism.

Maher compared Vance’s book to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s memoir because both men wrote openly about religion.

Asked whether he would read Newsom’s book, Vance landed one of the night’s biggest laughs.

“People bought my book is the difference,” Vance mocked.

As Maher and the audience erupted, Vance tried to soften the jab. “Sorry, was that mean?” he asked.

Newsom’s book, Young Man in a Hurry, focuses less on policy and more on personal experiences, including his parents’ separation, struggles with dyslexia and early work delivering newspapers.

Vance also showed a willingness to play along when the conversation turned to his predecessor, former Vice President Mike Pence.

After appearing shocked that Pence had once gone on Maher’s show, Vance mocked the former vice president’s stiff image.

“What did you talk about with Mike Pence – sex, drugs and rock n’ roll?” he quipped.

Maher said Pence had come across differently in person than he expected, calling him “a lot more human than I’d ever seen him.”

The pair also clashed over how ICE operates in American cities and debated whether a potential agreement with Iran would truly dismantle its nuclear ambitions.

Vance even agreed to appear on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, though he drew the line at one of the show’s better-known rituals. He said he would not “smoke w**d” with Maher.

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