Comedian Bill Maher on Thursday advised Vice President Kamala Harris to convince voters that she is not part of a "stealth version" of the far left.
"Kamala’s big, I think, challenge here to win over the undecided voters is to convince them that she’s not part of what they suspect she might be, sort of a stealth version of the worst excesses of the left. I said there’s a coalition of Trump voters, people who really like him," Mahar said during an interview to MSNBC.
"There certainly are those, and then there’s people that don’t necessarily like him that much, but they still think he’s less crazy than stuff that strikes them as aggressively anti-common sense," he added.
During the conversation, Maher also cautioned Harris from posing as a "woke" presidential candidate and said that that while the term used to mean "being alert to injustice," it's changed.
"Language is a living, breathing entity. Words change, and they migrate, and they take on a different meaning and ‘woke’ now has to answer for, or people have just used the word to describe a number of extreme things on the left," Maher said.
Harris, in the past, expressed support for banning fracking, a mandatory buyback program for semiautomatic rifles and eliminating the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal.
Harris also said she would eliminate private insurance and institute a single-payer health care program in 2019. She famously changed her "answer" the morning after the June 27, 2019, debate hosted by NBC News, saying she misunderstood the question and favored keeping supplemental private health insurance. She lost support from some progressives after the switch.
The vice president has backtracked on most of the policies she ran on in 2020, fracking in particular.
Harris' campaign said the vice president "does not support a total ban on fracking." But the vice president emphasized during an interview with CNN that her "values have not changed."
"I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act," Harris said.