“My Vote is in Play” - Bill Maher Says He Could Vote for Vance or Rubio in 2028

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
Bill Maher is being interviewed about who he's gonna be voting for. And you don't hear him say stuff like this, ever. But here's what Bill Maher recently said. He says, yes, my vote is in play. What does that mean? Here's Bill.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:13)
You told JD Vance, you're open, your vote is up for grabs.

**Bill Maher** (0:17)
Yes, my vote is in play, because it can't be Trump running. So I'm not living in communist America. I mean, I know that the talking point is, well, it's not communism, it's socialism. Okay, I've read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing. And DSA, again, they say things like, you know, take over of key industries, government.
That's communism, you know, there is a definition.

**Vinnie Valitutto** (0:49)
By the way, Trump's doing that too.

**Bill Maher** (0:51)
Of course, yes.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:54)
And to a degree that we haven't seen any other president. No, a Republican.

**Bill Maher** (0:58)
That's crazy, too.

**Vinnie Valitutto** (0:59)
It's got a piece of Intel, a piece of the AI company.

**Bill Maher** (1:02)
He treats everything like it's a real estate deal.

**Adam Sosnick** (1:04)
You told JD Vance, you're opening your ear.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:06)
What's happening here? What's happening here with Bill? You think anything's happening with Bill? And how many other bills you think are out there?

**Vinnie Valitutto** (1:14)
There's, Pat, there's multiple. Like, I mean, Stephen A and, you know, and I love him to death, but like the Bill Maher's and a lot of these people that have woken up, Chamath and all them, Pat, they're in a different category, but they're finally realizing what you created, okay? But it's too late. For ten years, the Bill Maher's and all these people cheered as all these radical voices, Pat, took over their armed party, and while they didn't give a damn, their only message was, orange man, Trump bad, he's bad, Hitler. They obsessed over him. They mocked anybody like us that sounded the alarm, okay? They labeled anybody that was talking crap, Pat, as hate, and they applauded while these extremists hijacked the agenda. Now, some of them like him are waking up, but guess what? This horror, the Frankenstein monster that you helped create, they're here, and they're not going anywhere, Pat. It's too late, okay? The fight for the identity of the party, it's not it's coming, it's around the corner, it's here, Pat. It is here, okay? They didn't lose their identity, they surrounded it. They wanted it, and while they were looking this way, Pat, this kept growing and growing and growing, and now, Trump is on his way out, two years left, and they're turning back, and they're like, oh my god. And for Bill Maher, for Bill Maher, one of the biggest left this out there, now he's finally saying, oh, wait a minute, this socialism, communism, guess what? You guys spent freaking ten years talking crap about one man, and now your party is finished. So now deal with it, and that's it.

**Tom Ellsworth** (2:39)
Tom, the first thing that Bill Maher said is, well, Trump's not running. So that shows you that the first thing on their mind is no Trump, not Trump, never Trump, all Trump bad. And not everything is in that category. This, you could take a look at what's happening in a lot of sectors and a lot of things in the economy. We gotta get the war done. We gotta deal with data centers. There's a lot of things that can and will and should be addressed. But it's all about not Trump. A lot of things that can and will and should be addressed. But it's all about not Trump, not Trump, not Trump, not Trump. So now that there's an open decision, he backs up, and what does he say?
I'm not sure I like what I see next to the D. I'm not sure.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:22)
And here's him, by the way. Here's him saying that to JD Vance. And by the way, the D is, guys, please, like...

**Bill Maher** (3:27)
Yeah, Tom is on a roll today. It's definitely Democrats. It's definitely Democrats. Let's go ahead. Yeah, Democrats. Democrats. Yeah, go ahead. If this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this 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.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:44)
Okay.

**Bill Maher** (3:46)
I like to hear that. It actually always has been. I just, every year, I don't make my decision by who was an R or a D. I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better.