Bill Maher compares Texas flipping blue to finding out your girlfriend is dating a lesbian in brutal GOP midterm roast

Talk-show host Bill Maher marveled at Democrats’ victories in red America in his latest monologue — singling out the GOP’s stunning loss in the Texas Senate race to state Rep.James Talarico.“For Republicans, losing Texas was like finding out your girlfriend is dating a lesbian.

You knew she was unhappy – but you didn’t think she’d go that far,” the comedian said to laughs on the set of his “Real Time” show on HBO.Maher also expressed surprise that his two-time White House dining companion, President Trump, accepted the election results.“Don, are you okay?” he asked.

“You sound unwell — you’re not even going to fake it was rigged?” ribbing Trump for conceding the results rather than claiming the election was stolen.Trump had repeatedly claimed throughout the campaign he won the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections even though he lost in 2020 to Joe BidenMaher also ran through some of the major Democratic upsets and the unresolved race in Alaska.“Texas went.South Carolina.

Kansas – Kansas! Mississippi.Alaska – well, you don’t know about Alaska.

They’re still counting Dan Sullivans,” 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.He also riffed on one of the weirder elements of the entire campaign: Trump’s repeated comments about Sen.John Husted’s (R-Ohio) posterior.“Even the power of John Husted’s muscular a– could not turn Ohio,” Maher said of the former political battleground where Democrats won both the Senate race, with former Sen.

Sherrod Brown, and the governor’s race, with Amy Acton.He then played a clip of Trump saying at a rally: “I looked at his a–, and I said, ‘His a–, it’s like a pile of muscle.'”“Yeah, and he lost to Sherrod Brown, a Democrat with a flabby a–,” Maher added at the tail end.As for demographic swings that drove the blue wave, “Taylor Swift hasn’t lost this many white guys,�...