Comedian Bill Maher said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to convince voters she is not part of a “stealth version” of the far left.

“Kamala’s big challenge, I think, in convincing undecided voters is to convince them that she is not what they suspect she is, a sort of stealth version of the worst excesses of the left I said there is a coalition of Trump voters, people who really like him. There are certainly some, and then there are people who don’t necessarily like him very much, but they. “They always think it’s less crazy than things that seem aggressively anti-common sense to them,” Maher said. .

Maher, who is also a regular critic of former President Trump, joined MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough for an interview after the MSNBC host joined him for an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday.

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Bill Maher said Kamala Harris needs to convince voters she’s not part of the “excesses” of the far left during an interview with MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

He also spoke about awakening and said that while the term once meant “being alert to injustice,” it has changed.

“Language is a living, breathing entity. Words change, they migrate and take on different meanings and revival must now respond, or people have simply used the word to describe a number of extreme left-wing things,” says Maher.

Harris campaigned on far-left policies during her first run for president in 2019 and has expressed support for banning fracking, a mandatory buyback program for semi-automatic 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 changed her “answer” the morning after the June 27, 2019 debate hosted by NBC News, saying that she had misunderstood the question and was in favor of maintaining additional insurance. private health insurance. She lost support from some progressives after the change.

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Democratic Vice President for President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, October 23. (AP/Matt Rourke)

The vice president has backtracked on most of the policies she implemented in 2020, particularly on fracking.

Harris’ campaign said the vice president “does not support a total ban on fracking.” But the vice president stressed during an interview with CNN that her “values ​​have not changed.”

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“I think the most important and meaningful aspect of my political perspective and my decisions is that my values ​​have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I believe in it. “I have worked, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent issue to which we should apply measures that include meeting deadlines. We did it with the Inflation Reduction Act,” said. Harris.

Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to this report.