Bill Maher predicts GOP will win big in midterms because of ‘woke culture’

Bill Maher predicts the GOP will win big in the midterms because of ‘woke culture,’ and compared America to the ‘Titanic right after the iceberg hit’ and said democracy was like a ‘McRib, so enjoy it while you can.’ 

The Real Time host, 66, didn’t seem too positive about the 2022 Midterm Elections on Tuesday, and says ‘woke culture is just one reason why the Republicans are going to do so well in this election.’ 

He went on to say that the ‘left has gone super crazy with lots of s**t that the average American just never voted for,’ such as gender identity and homelessness. 

Maher was also certain it ‘didn’t matter’ if former President Donald Trump, 76, who is rumored to be running in 2024, ‘wins or loses.’ 

‘He’s going to show up on inauguration day and this time he’s got those 300 people behind him who are going to back his bulls**t and that’s when the rubber is going to hit the road,’ he said on comedian Bill Burr’s podcast on Thursday. 

It is predicted that the Republican Party will rule the Senate and the House after Tuesday’s election. 

‘Things are going to change fundamentally in this country after this election,’ Maher said on Thursday. ‘They’re definitely going to win.’  

Maher said Democrats have ‘gone super crazy with lots of s**t that the average American just never voted for’ and it has hurt them in the 2022 midterms

The self-proclaimed ‘traditional liberal’ channeled the same energy on his Friday night show on HBO, where he again declared that ‘democracy will lose’ and Trump’s ‘election-deniers’ will prevail on Tuesday. 

He said on his show that the former president’s election deniers will carve out seats for themselves and Americans ‘won’t even care after it happens.’

‘We’re the Titanic right after the iceberg hit, and honestly too many Americans just don’t care and won’t even care after it happens, because they never followed politics to begin with and were never taught in school what [a] democratic government was supposed to look like,’ he said on his Real Time show. 

‘I’m afraid democracy is like the McRib, it’s here now [and] it’ll be around for a little bit longer, so enjoy it while you can,’ he said. 

‘Democracy is on the ballot, and unfortunately, it’s going to lose and once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s not somebody who can change your mind about in reverse. That’s gender,’ he joked, alluding to gender reassignment and de-transitioners.

‘There are almost 300 candidates on the ballot this year, who don’t believe in ballots, and they’ll be the ones writing the rules and monitoring how votes are counted in [20]24.

‘Well, we had a good run…Rules are about to go out the window.’ 

One of his panel guests was Washington Post columnist, Fareed Zakaria, who agreed with Maher’s claim, and added that the ‘majority’ of Republican candidates running in the midterms ‘are election deniers.’ 

‘These are people who are essentially contesting real and fair elections, the trapping of liberal democracy,’ Zakaria told Maher. ‘And the party doesn’t reign them in, the party doesn’t preform the role, that it used to, of gatekeeping.

‘I worry a lot about this. I feel as though – when I talk to my Republican friends – they say: “Oh, the system works, looks at the last election,” It worked, to be fair, because of a lot of good Republicans stood up, like Brad Raffensperger in Georgia and a lot of Republican-appointed judges, but many of those have been neutered or defeated out of office.’

Republicans are forecasted to win the House and the Senate after Tuesday’s midterm election 

Republicans are estimated to gain four seats in the Senate and get 228 seats in the House  

The Senate is predicted to have 46 Democrats and 54 Republicans filling the seats, with seven undetermined 

‘We have a really dangerous situation here,’ Zakaria said. ‘Lower your taxes is not our democracy.’ 

Maher’s second panelist, New York Times reporter and author Maggie Haberman, said Democrats ‘aren’t consistent’ with their processes and culture. 

‘There has not been a consistent way that the Democrats are approaching what is an enormous issue,’ she said. ‘They are all over the map, depending on the races.’ 

Rising crime and concerns about the state of the economy – including inflation – appear to have won out as the top issues for likely voters.

Polls have projected a discontent among Americans with how Democrats have handled both issues. Though neither party has seemed to net a decisive majority on public trust to stop rising crime and fix the economy, the vast majority of surveys show voters favor the GOP to oversee them.

Republicans are now projected to pick up four seats in the Senate, according to RealClearPolitics, for a total of 54 GOP lawmakers to 46 Democrats – including the two Independents that caucus with the left.

The poll aggregator’s latest analysis shows Republicans flipping Senate seats in Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Arizona. All four states have Democratic incumbents being challenged by GOP candidates aligned with Donald Trump.

Democrats are not forecasted to pick up any seats, according to the analysis.

It shows that 51 percent of likely voters would pick a Republican on a generic Congressional ballot, while 47 percent chose Democrats.

The poll was taken between October 26 and 31. An earlier iteration had the parties’ margins nearly flipped.

In September, 50 percent of people said they’d vote for a Democrat and 47 percent sided with the GOP. 

Even white women have swung toward the Republican Party by 27 points since August, as economic issues are taking precedent to abortion rights, a poll showed.  

Maher also said that the January 6 hearings, which recently ended, ‘changed nobody’s mind’ despite the ‘masterful job laying out the case.’

Maher also predicted that it didn’t matter if Trump ‘wins or loses’ in 2024, that he will show up to inauguration anyways and will be backed by the ‘300 people’ in the midterms now. He also said Democrats, like Biden, are pushed on topics Americans ‘never’ voted for, like gender identity and homelessness 

‘Even if Trump loses, it doesn’t matter! On Inauguration Day 2025, he’s going to show up whether he’s on the list or not,’ he said. ‘And this time, he’s not going to take no for an answer because this time, he will have behind him the army of election deniers that is being elected in four days.

‘This really is the crossing the Rubicon moment when the election deniers are elected, which is often how countries slide into authoritarianism. Not with tanks in the streets, but by electing the people who then have no intention of ever giving it back.’ 

Maher said this is how Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin were elected and that America is facing a ‘it can’t happen to us’ moment. 

‘That’s happening to us right now. We just don’t feel it yet,’ he said on his show. 

The outspoken host also bid farewell to peaceful transfer of power, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law.

‘Make no mistake, it will be an entirely different way of life for many, because our elections will just be for show like in China and Russia and all the other places Trump says are “very strong,”‘ he said. 

He encouraged Americans to vote, but said ‘it’s also a waste of breath because anyone who believes that is already voting and anyone who needs to learn that isn’t watching and no one in America can be persuaded of anything anymore anyway.’ 

Although he said Americans are united in one front: ‘Everybody here cannot wait for Tuesday to come for the ads on TV [to be] gone.’  

White suburban women swing REPUBLICAN by 15 points: New poll shows Democrat support with key group has dropped by 27 POINTS since August – as economic issues have taken priority and abortion has faded 

White suburban women are running toward the Republican Party in droves with less than a week to go until the midterm elections, a new analysis suggested on Wednesday.

The voting bloc makes up roughly 20 percent of the electorate and was critical to Democrats’ ‘blue wave’ of Congressional victories in 2018. 

But now, a new poll from the Wall Street Journal shows they’ve swung toward the GOP by a whopping 15 percentage points ahead of Democrats.

It’s a 27-point shift away from the left since August, according to the Journal’s analysis of its latest midterms poll.

Among the top issues leading them to the right is the economy and sky-high inflation rates. 

Voters dissatisfaction with the fiscal matters has long been an albatross for Democrats, who currently control the White House and both houses of Congress. 

But liberals had hoped that outrage over the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June would given them an unprecedented surge in momentum – which it briefly did.

Abortion still remains an important topic for most suburban white women and a decisive issue for some, but it pales in comparison to worries about their cost of living.

Half said that Republicans have a better economic plan for them, compared to 24 percent who said the same about Democrats.

On inflation, which was at 8.2 percent according to the most recently available data, Republicans take a 31-point lead over Democrats in who suburban white women think will be able to ease it.

The group was also among the most enthusiastic in this election cycle, the Journal’s analysis suggests. 

Wherever the chips fall on November 8, the election is sure to shatter past turnout records. 

Early voting alone has already hit new highs in some states, and numerous polls suggest people are placing more significance on this election than in years’ past.

Of all the voting blocs factored, 85 percent of suburban white women said they are motivated to vote in the midterms – a higher share than any other group, according to the Journal.

In another knock to Democrats, it appears that most of these voters see their migration to the right as long term.

If the 2024 election were held today, suburban white female voters favor Donald Trump over Joe Biden by a margin of 52 percent to 41. 

Biden was winning that match-up by a decisive amount in August – leading Trump at 55 percent compared to the ex-president’s 39 percent. 

Overall polls show Republicans are enjoying a last-minute wave of voter enthusiasm that could carry them to victory in the Senate and House of Representatives.

The GOP had for months been forecasted to take back the House, but Democrats saw hope in enough Senate races to avoid a foregone conclusion of total defeat.

As of Wednesday, however, that appears to have changed. 

Republicans are now projected to pick up four seats in the Senate, according to RealClearPolitics, for a total of 54 GOP lawmakers to 46 Democrats – including the two Independents that caucus with the left.

The poll aggregator’s latest analysis shows Republicans flipping Senate seats in Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Arizona. All four states have Democratic incumbents being challenged by GOP candidates aligned with Donald Trump.

Democrats are not forecasted to pick up any seats, according to the analysis.

On the House side, Republicans are forecasted to win 228 races, compared to 174 projected Democratic victories.

That means that even if the left wins all 33 toss-up races, they would still fall short of the 218 threshold needed for a ruling majority in Congress’ lower chamber.