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Bill Maher expressed admiration for Maryland Governor Wes Moore, calling him an impressive potential candidate for the 2028 Presidential Election.
\nMaher criticized both major political parties for extreme polarization and argued that most Americans desire a centrist leader who can bridge the divide.
\nHe also commented on the Democratic Party\u2019s focus on identity politics.<\/p>\n
Bill Maher<\/a> recently revealed his top pick for the 2029 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n During an interview with\u00a0The Free Press<\/a>\u00a0published on YouTube on December 22, the\u00a0Real Time With Bill Maher<\/a> host, 69, discussed who he thinks would be best-suited for the job.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody goes to their furthest side of the pendulum, you know?\u201d Maher said of the extreme divide between Democrats and Republicans. \u201cThe liberals come in, and the whole thing is way too p***y-fied. And then you go right, too macho, and, \u2018Let\u2019s blow up boats. Let\u2019s arrest people at Home Depot,\u2019 and all this macho bulls***.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cAnd the average person, I think, is just saying, \u2018I don\u2019t want either\u2026 Can\u2019t we just get some normal place in the middle?\u2019 Both parties keep disappointing those people.\u201d<\/p>\n To that, interviewer Maya Sulkin asked, \u201cDo you see people that you have hope for that could do that and garner momentum in a real way?\u201d<\/p>\n Maher replied, \u201cI went to a luncheon last week with Wes Moore. I never met him; he\u2019s very impressive. I came away very, very impressed with that.\u201d<\/p>\n He clarified, \u201cI\u2019m not picking a candidate yet. But I didn\u2019t know that much about him. His name was on a lot of people\u2019s lips, as far as who\u2019s gonna run. Now, he said he has zero interest in running next time \u2014 well, of course, they all say that, and that could or could not be true. But he has immense political talent.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, Maher claimed that the Democratic Party, in recent election cycles, has been \u201cway too beholden to identity politics.\u201d He explained, \u201cBiden gets the nod, so he has to pick a Black woman. And then she becomes the nominee, so she has to pick a lame white guy. So they\u2019re always going through this cycle of having to balance their last bulls*** box checking out.\u201d<\/p>\n Maher continued, \u201cBut Wes, he wears the magic armor, which is great. Just like Obama. You\u2019re dealing with a party that has a lot of white people who feel very guilty about things we actually didn\u2019t do ourselves. But that\u2019s their thing, and it\u2019s not like, obviously, we shouldn\u2019t own the past and feel bad about it, and in many ways, do what we can to repair it where it needs to be repaired. But there is a weird sort of white self-loathing in the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n As far as Moore is concerned, \u201cHe could be a centrist in a way Obama could that a white guy can\u2019t,\u201d the late-night host pointed out. \u201cHe\u2019s like already sort of, like, passed a certain test with the super-woke white people, who are way more liberal, by the way, than most Black folks in this country. They have polling on this.\u201d<\/p>\n Moore, 47, is currently the governor of Maryland.<\/p>\n Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 24, Premieres, Friday, January 23, 2026, HBO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What To Know Bill Maher expressed admiration for Maryland Governor Wes Moore, calling him an impressive potential candidate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-374487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}