Bill Maher Tells JD Vance His ‘Vote Is in Play’ for 2028 Election With 1 ‘Dealbreaker’
What To Know
- Bill Maher told Vice President JD Vance that his vote is “in play” for the 2028 election.
- Maher pressed Vance to commit to accepting legitimate election results, but Vance deflected.
- Vance maintained that technology companies unfairly influenced the 2020 election.
Bill Maher just told Vice President JD Vance that his “vote is in play” for the 2028 presidential election, but with one “dealbreaker.”
On the Friday, June 26 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, Vance, 41, was a guest. Maher, 70, didn’t shy away from difficult questions. However, the stand-up comedian didn’t have much luck in prompting the VP to answer many of them directly.
“If this is where the Democratic Party is going, with the Democratic Socialist — 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 told Vance. “It actually always has been.”
After pointing out that President Donald Trump, 80, can’t run again following his second term, Maher speculated, “So it’s either going to be you or [Marco] Rubio.”
The late-night host added, “Here’s my dealbreaker 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?” Can you tell me you will do that? Will you bring us back to the middle, at least on that, where we concede elections?”
“OK, Bill, so this is where I’m probably gonna lose you here,” Vance responded.
“Look, I don’t think that we should not concede elections, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on,” he explained, before explaining Trump’s “core argument” about “problems that existed in 2020.” Vance continued, “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.”
The VP then claimed, “The sense in which I think the 2020 election was rigged, I’m sorry, is that you had technology companies that were putting their thumb on a scale in a way that completely obliterated the real, open exchange of ideas. Now, by the way, it didn’t happen in 2024, but it happened in 2020, and it was a problem.”
To that, Maher quipped, “Well, you’re gonna get a big pat on the back when you go back to the White House.”
Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays at 10/9c, HBO
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There was no election rigging. If there was where is the evidence? Show me proof. I do not believe a single word from a politician’s mouth. Not one. They keep screaming interference (but Trump literally admitted interfering in CA primaries, and was on tape trying to get GA to find him votes). Come on people. Wake up!!! They’ve had how many years to produce it and have yet to show concrete evidence. They’re lying so YOU have distrust in elections. Mail-in voting dates back to the Civil War days. Know how much fraud has occurred since? 0.00000000000000000000002%. Seriously. It’s a verifiable number, unlike their lies. Just because you lost, doesn’t mean someone else cheated. What their lies say to me is there was an attempt at cheating in 2020 by Republicans but more people voted than anticipated, which nullified the attempt and Trump lost. They always talk out both sides of their mouths. While we’re at it, JD flip flops more than a fish out of water on the sand gasping for their life. He has no actual platform. He moves however the wind blows. The key is he is buddies with Peter Thiel. That’s a HUGE red flag. JD is smarmy, unlikable, not trustworthy…so when he compared himself to Nixon, it was the most honest thing he’s ever said.
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If you'd vote for Marco Rubio, you need to go watch how he glitched out in the 2016 Republican Primaries. He doesn't believe anything he says. He is a politician for sale to the highest bidder.
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JD showed himself to be what he is ... a political entity. I don't trust anything he says. MTGreen got a bit of a positive bump when she first appeared on Real Time (not so much the second time, imo). I'm guessing JD was looking for the same kind of Bill Maher magic. HoHum.
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