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Bill Maher isn’t usually one to throw compliments Donald Trump’s way—but this week, even he couldn’t resist applauding the former president’s savvy play at winning over single-issue voters.
On a recent episode of Real Time, Maher laid it out: Trump knows how to “pick off voters issue by issue,” and now cannabis legalization could be the one that wins him over. His tone was gleefully defeated—like a parent watching a kid beat their high score.
Maher quipped, “I’ve been telling Democrats for years, the Republicans are gonna steal pot from you as an issue.” It wasn’t a rallying cry—it was the sound of a cynic admitting the game was one.
He drove it home with a riff on Trump’s playbook: “He’s the master at winning votes from small groups who are passionate about one issue, picking up a couple percent here, a couple there…” until Election Night turns into something like a bizarre Y-M-C-A celebration.
