Bill Maher Blames Harris Struggles on ‘Aggressively Anti-Common Sense’ Woke Left

Mediaite Contributor @DukeMason - Bill Maher told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that Vice President Kamala Harris’s biggest “challenge” in the final days of the election is convincing “undecided voters” that she’s not “sort of a stealth version of the worst excesses of the left.” Maher sat down with Scarborough after a recent episode of Real Time where Scarborough joined Mark Cuban and activist David Hogg on panel. The Maher and Scarborough interview aired on Thursday’s Morning Joe. Maher railed against both political parties and identified himself as an “old school liberal” to distance his politics from the “woke” wing of the party. “I consider myself an old school liberal. You have to make that distinction now because, you know, the word woke, which started out as a good thing, being alert to injustice and a lot of people get triggered by the word because when they hear it, they think of the old meaning, which was good,” the comedian said. He argued that former President Donald Trump has a “coalition” of voters that includes plenty of people who “like” him and plenty of others who don’t, but they still prefer his brazen style to what they view as “stuff that strikes them as aggressively anti-common sense.” Maher pointed to a pro-Trump ad running that knocks Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners. Gender-affirming care was offered to prisoners under Trump’s administration, but Maher argued the ad is effective in that it hits key words for undecided voters. Harris has found herself cleaning up multiple past positions during her campaign, including her once-opposition to fracking. Welcome to Mediaite, THE site for news and opinion on the intersection of media and politics. Join Mediaite+ https://www.mediaite.com/subscribe/ ►Subscribe to Mediaite: https://bit.ly/3MjuECB ► Website: https://www.mediaite.com/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediaite/ ► X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mediaite ► Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mediaite ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mediaite