Bill Maher sounds the alarm on impending threat for Democrats posed by Mamdani

“Real Time” host Bill Maher battled CNN political commentator Kate Bedingfield on Friday over New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s dual citizenship, as the comedian warned electing the democratic socialist candidate might not be a good look for the party.“I think the whole Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot, and the whole country will be looking at this race to see which way are the Democrats going to go,” Maher said.Maher said former New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo wasn’t inspirational or all that exciting, but said he was “kind of normal.” Bedingfield said that there were things in Cuomo’s past that she didn’t want to embrace as normal.“They’re going to have to decide on this mayor’s race.

Now, they say it’s getting closer.If it is Mamdami in New York, again, I think this has very important national implications,” Maher said.“I think that if Mamdani wins with a coalition of voters who have been not all that excited about the Democratic Party over the last few years, I think that’s a good thing for the Democrats.

“And I think if you’re in a purple district, say you disagree with some of the things that he does and use that to establish your independent cred,” Bedingfield said.Maher pushed back as he pointed to Cuomo’s criticism of Mamdani’s ties to Uganda, where he was born, due to the country’s treatment of LGBTQ people.Cuomo is running as an independent against Mamdani.“You make it sound like he’s a little more mainstream than I think he is.

I mean, the issue now that Andrew Cuomo is bringing up in New York is that he is a Ugandan citizen.Uganda is a country where they kill homosexuals,” Maher said.

“I would renounce, if I was the dual citizen with a country whose policy was we kill homosexuals.I would renounce that citizenship,” Maher said.At the Oct.

22 mayoral debate, Cuomo said to Mamdani, “How do you not renounce your citizenship or demand BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] ...