Comedian Bill Maher said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to convince voters that she is not part of a “stealth version” of the far left.
“Kamala's big challenge in attracting undecided voters will be convincing them that she is not what they suspect, a stealth version of the left's worst excesses. I think there are people who voted for Trump who really like him, and there are people who don't necessarily like him that much, but they still think he's actively anti-common sense. We think it’s less crazy than the opposite,” Maher said. .
Maher, who also regularly criticizes former President Trump, was interviewed Friday after MSNBC host Joe Scarborough joined him on an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
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Bill Maher said in an interview on MSNBC that Kamala Harris must convince voters that she is not part of the “excess” of the far left. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
He also spoke about wokeism, saying the term used to mean “vigilance against injustice” but has now changed.
“Language is a living, breathing entity. Words change, move, take on different meanings, and now that we're awake, we have to answer. I just used that word to explain it,” Maher said.
Harris campaigned for far-left policies when she first ran for president in 2019, expressing support for banning fracking and eliminating the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal.
Harris also said she would eliminate private insurance and introduce a single-payer health care system in 2019. The morning after a debate hosted by NBC News on June 27, 2019, she famously misunderstood the question and changed her “answer” in favor of keeping the supplement. Private health insurance. After the change in government, she lost support from some progressives.
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 23rd. (AP/Matt Rourke)
The vice president has reversed most of his 2020 policies, particularly the fracking policy.
Harris' campaign said the vice president “does not support a complete ban on hydraulic fracturing.” However, the vice president emphasized in an interview with CNN that “our values have not changed.”
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“I think the most important and important aspect of my policy views and decisions is that my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I believe that the climate crisis is real. “We have always believed, and we have been committed to, that this is an urgent issue where metrics such as meeting deadlines should be applied,” Harris said.
FOX News' Daniel Wallace contributed to this report.
