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Bill Maher Spars With Far-Left Guest Over ‘Real Radical’ Zohran Mamdani
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on August 2, 2025
By Cullen McCue
HBO host Bill Maher, a longtime Democrat who has developed a reputation for criticizing the left’s more radical elements in recent years, got into a somewhat tense exchange with a supporter of pro-communist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during Friday’s installment of “Real Time.”
“He’s not contrived. He’s gonna be the mayor of New York,” Maher argued. The talk show host went on to highlight some of Mamdani’s most radical, Marxist-aligned policies, including significant reduction in police resources, government-owned grocery stores and exuberant minimum wage hikes that have led to crippling job losses in states like California.
“There’s a lot of opposition [to Mamdani] because we’ve never had someone this radical,” Maher went on to say. “Some of the things he says, you know he quotes Marxists, ‘each according to their need.’ I mean, that’s straight up Communism.”
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a member of the House progressive caucus, pushed back by claiming that Mamdani is not as radical as Maher argues and has instead been maligned as the latest “boogeyman” by the right. “They always try to create a villain is my point,” he said. “They always try to create some boogeyman or bogeywoman.”
“No, these are quotes. I’m not creating anything, I’m quoting [Mamdani],” Maher shot back.
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