{"id":752102,"date":"2026-11-08T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-roasts-gops-midterm-losses-in-red-states\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:30:38","slug":"bill-maher-roasts-gops-midterm-losses-in-red-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-roasts-gops-midterm-losses-in-red-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher roasts GOP&#8217;s midterm losses in red states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aefd63cd37a8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aefd63cd37a8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-roasts-gops-midterm-losses-in-red-states\/#%E2%80%9CBill_Maher_roasts_GOPs_midterm_losses_in_red_states%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Bill Maher roasts GOP&#8217;s midterm losses in red states&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-maher-roasts-gops-midterm-losses-in-red-states\/#More_coverage_of_the_2026_midterm_elections\" >More coverage of the 2026 midterm elections:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBill_Maher_roasts_GOPs_midterm_losses_in_red_states%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Bill Maher roasts GOP&#8217;s midterm losses in red states&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F11%2Freal-time.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Talk-show host Bill Maher marveled at Democrats\u2019 victories in red America in his latest monologue \u2014 singling out the GOP\u2019s stunning loss in the Texas Senate race to state Rep. James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Republicans, losing Texas was like finding out your girlfriend is dating a lesbian. You knew she was unh<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y \u2013 but you didn\u2019t think she\u2019d go that far,\u201d the co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n said to laughs on the set of his \u201cReal Time\u201d show on HBO.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Comedian Bill Maher offered his own crude take on the midterm bloodbath. <span class=\"credit\">Real Time with Bill Maher<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maher also expressed surprise that his two-time White House dining companion, President Trump, accepted the election results.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDon, are you okay?\u201d he asked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou sound unwell \u2014 you\u2019re not even going to fake it was rigged?\u201d<strong> <\/strong>ribbing Trump for conceding the results rather than claiming the election was stolen.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Trump had repeatedly claimed throughout the campaign he won the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections even though he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden<\/p>\n<p>Maher also ran through some of the major Democratic upsets and the unresolved race in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas went. South Carolina. Kansas \u2013 Kansas! Mississippi. Alaska \u2013 well, you don\u2019t know about Alaska. They\u2019re still counting Dan Sullivans,\u201d he quipped, in a reference to Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and Daniel R. Sullivan Jr., who are both losing to Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Republican US Senate candidate Ken Paxton suffered one of the most humiliating defeats of the night Tuesday. <span class=\"credit\">Ian Halperin\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also riffed on one of the weirder elements of the entire campaign: Trump\u2019s repeated comments about Sen. John Husted\u2019s (R-Ohio) posterior.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_coverage_of_the_2026_midterm_elections\"><\/span>More coverage of the 2026 midterm elections:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cEven the power of John Husted\u2019s muscular a\u2013 could not turn Ohio,\u201d Maher said of the former political battleground where Democrats won both the Senate race, with former Sen. Sherrod Brown, and the governor\u2019s race, with Amy Acton.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maher talked about all the red states that fell to the Democratic wave. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then played a clip of Trump saying at a rally: \u201cI looked at his a\u2013, and I said, \u2018His a\u2013, it\u2019s like a pile of muscle.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, and he lost to Sherrod Brown, a Democrat with a flabby a\u2013,\u201d Maher added at the tail end.<\/p>\n<p>As for demographic swings that drove the blue wave, \u201cTaylor Swift hasn\u2019t lost this many white guys,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>Maher also took aim at what he described as Republican efforts to undermine the vote, but celebrated the results:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with the attempted rigging \u2014 and they did try to rig it in every different kind of way: mail-in balloting, intimidating the voters, all that s\u2014. 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