Bill Maher rips Dems 'pandering' to minority voters: 'Move on from identity politics. It's not working'
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night scorching Democrats for "pandering" to minority groups for votes, telling them the time of relying on "identity politics" to win elections is over.
"I do give a s--- about who wins the next election. And outdated racial pandering is one reason Democrats lose elections," Maher told viewers. "When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put on Kente cloth, I don't think it earned them one vote for their powerful emotional ties to Ghana."
"Here in California, we're now segregating kidnapping. Really. California doesn't just have AMBER alerts for missing children. We have "Ebony alerts" for Black children and "feather" alerts for Native American kids. What is that, you look for them by listening on the ground?"
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Maher pointed to statistics that show a "276%" increase in Americans who identify as multiracial and how "one in five" newlyweds are in interracial marriages.
"You couldn't do a remake of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' today because almost 100% of Americans approve of interracial marriage, especially with rich in-laws," Maher quipped.
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