{"id":659,"date":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","slug":"my-vote-is-in-play-maher-tells-vance-hed-vote-for-a-republican-over-a-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy vote is in play\u201d: Maher tells Vance he\u2019d vote for a Republican over a progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Maher getting cozy with the GOP shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to the comedian\u2019s cranky, conservative slide over the last several years. Still, it was a shock on Friday when Maher told Vice President JD Vance directly that he was weighing voting red.<\/p>\n

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Vance stopped by \u201cReal Time\u201d to promote his new book \u201cCommunion\u201d and was roundly mocked by Maher for the administration\u2019s handling of the war in Iran and ICE deportations. Still, that wasn\u2019t enough to keep Maher from considering a vote for Vance.<\/p>\n

Maher said that progressive Democrats stance on Israel and crime had pushed him toward their opposing party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is where the Democratic Party is going\u2026 this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, with they don\u2019t believe in capitalism, no prisons, if this is where they\u2019re going, my vote is in play,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n

The host added that he has never voted along party lines and that his vote is always candidate-specific. Until recently, Maher said his calculus pushed him toward Democrats.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t make my decision by who has an R or a D,\u201d he said. \u201cI actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better, and voted for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher said he would gladly vote for Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, provided that Republicans lay off crying foul every time they lose an election.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s my dealbreaker for your side: Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes that an election can be, either we win or they cheated. That shit has to stop,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that means the person who has to stop it will be you, or Marco. Can you tell me you will do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance refused to give a straight answer, saying that the true problem with the 2020 presidential election was the supposed bias of social media platforms. Maher said that answer would get Vance an attaboy when he returned to DC, even if it didn\u2019t go over on the talk show set.<\/p>\n

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Watch Maher\u2019s interview with Vance below via YouTube:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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