Maher backs Graham Platner, urges voters to accept ‘broken, horribly educated… sort of nutty people’

Leftist comedian Bill Maher has dropped a bombshell endorsement in Maine’s Senate race, and people aren’t happy.

Despite seeming more reasonable than many on the left these days, Maher will occasionally slip in reminders that he is still, in fact, a Democrat. This time, it comes in the form of his endorsement of Graham Platner, who has been embroiled in multiple controversies during his candidacy.

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Being straight-up crazy is just not a dealbreaker anymore in politics. pic.twitter.com/8p5rdOAmEu

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) June 13, 2026

“New rule, let’s get real about Graham Platner. If you’ve been sleeping on politics lately, well, who can blame you? But the big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. Their local candidate — now official after the primary this week — let’s just say, has a backstory that screams ‘Don’t elect,’” Maher began. “Now, I don’t judge Graham Platner because I’m just learning who he is. Problem is, so is he. What I do know is he served his country in the Marines in war, and you can never discount how big that is. But then there’s the sexting while married, scary behavior according to some of his exes, old posts about how he’s a communist and ‘all cops are bastards’ and ‘Black people don’t tip.’ Well, they don’t tip cops — I can understand that.”

“Here’s a typical Platner quote he said about the Iraq War: ‘You can think it’s dumb and also kind of not want to miss it.’ Oh Graham, I feel the same way about so many things — the Oscars, Christmas, Taylor Swift’s wedding, that little speech Nicole Kidman gives before the movie comes on where she looks insane,” the host joked. “And then of course, there’s the Nazi tattoo on his chest. I mean, seriously, this guy’s whole life is the movie The Hangover. He doesn’t need a term in the Senate — he needs a gap year in Costa Rica. And yet, I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him for two reasons. One: We need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that. And two: Get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror.”

Despite backing the candidate, Maher couldn’t really find anything good to say about him, which is as telling as it is sad.

“I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader. And no, of course that’s not policy he’s proposing. It’s a fantasy his ex says he talked about. Next week it’ll be policy,” he jabbed. “And to be fair, he said the raping wasn’t something he’d do in a gay way, because that would be weird.”

X users reacted to his endorsement:

Bill when’s the last time you even set foot in my state? Maybe don’t talk about things you don’t understand. How you ended up on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is simply beyond me. Guess they just hand those out to anybody, huh?

— sanguine77 (@SanguineHunter7) June 13, 2026

You Bill are the biggest hypocrite today! Clearly you have no respect for women unless it fits your narrative. You win award for sure Official shithead of the week goes to you…

— Denise (@BeachGirlDenise) June 13, 2026

I can’t get behind this one. Justification of it because “the other side” does it is too unprincipled for my taste.

— Dr. Eddie Waldrep (@dreddiewaldrep) June 13, 2026

Not if you have a D in front of your name. Absolutely zero principles on the left. And just about the only thing the right does with consistency. They will eat their own at the drop of a hat. The left would support Hitler if he was a democrat. Hell, they literally are.

— Mr. John Daniels (@dan_themandan) June 13, 2026

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