Bill Maher may need to choose up a ticket to the Eras Tour on his solution to the polls.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic marveled at Taylor Swift‘s affect after she beforehand announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris and drove greater than 400,000 potential voters to the registration web site.
“Let’s get to the large information this week,” Maher prefaced. “Taylor Swift lastly advised individuals who to vote for. In fact, instantly the response from the opposite facet was, ‘Superstar endorsements don’t matter.’ Persons are at all times so behind on these items. That’s the standard knowledge for a very long time, many superstar endorsements don’t work… not on this case — I imply, simply the quantity of people that have been instantly registered from that Tweet.”
He continued, “And I’m sorry, however we stay in Starf—er, America. George Clooney is the one who got Biden to step down. I wrote the very same editorial he did, and so many different individuals did too. No one cared. As quickly as George Clooney mentioned it, he’s gotta go.”
Maher then tried to unpack a “stunning” statistic about Swift’s fanbase following her post-debate endorsement of Harris.
“This was essentially the most stunning a part of it, was who she influenced,” he mentioned. “Swift, it says, would have extra affect over male voters — 27% of male voters mentioned they’d be extra prone to vote for a candidate endorsed by Swift. I will need to have this phenomenon gauged all unsuitable. I believed it might be ladies.”
Maybe Maher ought to spend money on a homosexual pal? They most likely would have suggested him towards making the subsequent joke he did about Swift.
“Now that Taylor Swift has saved democracy by endorsing Kamala Harris, she has yet another mission: cease making Travis Kelce gown like a douche,” mentioned Maher in his ‘New Guidelines’ phase. “I don’t personal a cat however I do know what it smells like after they mark their turf.”
Swift beforehand shared her endorsement of Harris and working mate Tim Walz on Instagram. “I might be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election,” she wrote.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them,” added Swift. “I believe she is a steady-headed, gifted chief and I imagine we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.”