Maher: ‘Democrats Have a Guy Who Recently Died of a Stroke’ in PA

During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that U.S. Senate candidate and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) is “still a little shaky.” And quipped that he gets why people are apathetic about the midterms, since in the Pennsylvania Senate race, “Democrats have a guy who recently died of a stroke,” and “Republicans are putting up a slate of election deniers and oafs and crackpots and crooks.”

After getting a weak reaction to saying at the beginning of his opening that he knows the audience is excited because the midterms are coming up soon, Maher said, “I guess I was wrong, not excited about that. … Well, I don’t blame you for being a little apathetic. I mean, wow, what an election this is, the Republicans are putting up a slate of election deniers and oafs and crackpots and crooks. And the Democrats have a guy who recently died of a stroke, so. No, not died, we’re not making fun, but I don’t know if you saw that debate in Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz against John Fetterman, he did recently have a stroke — Fetterman — and he is still a little shaky. That debate, ooh, neurologists call that condition Herschel Walker.”

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