Liberal comedian Bill Maher on Friday said the rise of socialism in the modern-day Democratic Party is increasingly pushing him towards Republicans, during an interview with Vice President JD Vance. 

Maher invited Vance on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher, where he complained that major Democrats, including leading socialists, have declined his invitation to appear on the late-night program. Referencing a string of socialist victories in New York, the late night host said this “Democratic socialist, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons,” concerned him, and told Vance that given the dynamic in his home party, he might be casting a vote for the vice president or Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2028, should the two men make a bid for the White House.