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Maher panel debates Nikki Haley as Trump's VP: She makes 'Dick Cheney look like the Dalai Lama'

There was a clash of opinions during a Bill Maher panel Friday night over whether former President Trump would pick his former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as his vice president. 

Following his major victory at the Iowa caucuses, Trump is now widely seen as the presumptive Republican nominee, which is already fueling conversations on who his running mate would be. After months of hedging on the subject, Haley told voters in New Hampshire this week “I don’t want to be anybody’s vice president” while Trump said at a rally Friday night she “probably” won’t be on the ticket. 

During the “Overtime” segment of his HBO show, Maher asked his panel who is on Trump’s running mate short list, first naming Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who has gotten VP buzz in recent weeks. 

“She used to be a normal and then became a Trump crazy,” Maher said. 

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Despite the ongoing tension between Trump and Haley, MSNBC host Ari Melber responded by saying Trump would pick the former South Carolina governor, sparking an immediate “no” from Maher.

“I think he’s teamed up with people who’ve said way worse things- [Ohio Senator] JD Vance wrote a whole book and launch his career attacking Trump,” Melber said. 

“He doesn’t care about any of that,” Maher responded.

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“Although there are parts of MAGA as we discussed that might not love her,” Melber continued, “if Trump says this is it, and he’s very practical and she would help in the suburbs, which is his biggest general election vulnerability. I think there’s a lot of the actual numbers people around Trump who are trying to get them to think about that. It would probably give him several points.” 

Melber later added, “Bill, you said tonight it looks like he can get reelected. He definitely could. But he got 3 million fewer votes in 16. He got 7 million fewer votes in 20. And they had bad midterms and the Democrats have won every state-based special election in the last year. If he’s gonna win, which he could, he’s can’t run as the 20 or 16 version of him. And the ticket is the first, largest way to say to the suburbs I’m a little different.”

“The trouble with Nikki is that she makes, sort of, Dick Cheney look like the Dalai Lama,” Substack writer Andrew Sullivan chimed in. “There is not a country she wouldn’t invade, not a country she wouldn’t bomb. She is the most unreconstructed neocon I’ve ever come across in politics.. And Trump’s entire message is I’m not an unreconstructed neocon!”

“You’re giving voters way too much credit,” Maher pushed back. “This is not what they’re thinking about!”

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Sullivan doubled down, “No, I think one of the issues that helped him are the people who are sick of these wars! And when they have someone who seems like they want to get into more wars, they are not going to like it. It’s a big issue!”

“I don’t think voters expect the running mate to set foreign policy, period,” Melber responded. 

“I don’t think they think about foreign policy,” Maher asserted before acknowledging Ukraine as something they care about only because it’s “holding up immigration.”

“They care about this country. What’s going on in this country just the way most people watch local news, they don’t want national news,” the HBO host said. 

“They don’t want the wars, which Nikki represents. That’s their position on foreign policy,” Sullivan said before Melber added, “The median Trump voter doesn’t think that he’s going to take the cues from her on that.” 

Liz Cheney won't commit to voting for Joe Biden in 'View' appearance, but will 'never' vote for Trump

Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney joined the hosts of ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday and refused to commit to voting for President Biden in 2024, but said she would never vote for Donald Trump. 

The hosts of “The View” asked Cheney twice if she would vote for Biden in 2024 over Trump, if he ends up being the Republican nominee

“Nobody has voted yet, so we don’t know for sure who the nominees are going to be on each side,” Cheney said.

She also argued that the Republican Party was not likely to survive and there would be “a huge tectonic shift in our politics.” Co-host Joy Behar asked Cheney again who she would vote for in 2024 if it were Biden v. Trump, which polls show is currently the most likely matchup in November.

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“Let me ask you a radical question, because I know you’re a patriotic American… Would you vote for Biden?” Behar asked.

“I’m not going to endorse anybody today,” Cheney said. “And I think that, again, we don’t know exactly what the choice will be. I’d say that I will never vote for Donald Trump. There are some conservatives who are trying to make this claim that somehow Biden is a bigger risk than Trump. My view is, I disagree with a lot of Joe Biden’s policies. We can survive bad policies. We cannot survive torching the Constitution.”

Behar agreed and said Biden was not “crazy.” 

Cheney released a memoir titled “Oath & Honor” focused on the former president and the “threat posed by his efforts to overturn the election” of 2020. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, she was an ally of Trump’s at times when he was in office and ascended to chair of the House Republican Conference, but she vehemently opposed his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. She further angered Republicans when she joined the Jan. 6 House Select Committee that investigated the events surrounding the 2021 Capitol riot. 

As a result, she was defeated in a landslide in her GOP primary race for Wyoming’s at-large congressional seat in 2022.

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The anti-Trump Republican delivered a speech in New Hampshire on Friday and called on voters to reject the “plague of cowardice” within the GOP.

“Speak for us all. Tell the world who we are with your vote. Tell them that we are a good and a great nation,” she added. “But make sure they know that we do not bend, we do not break and we do not yield in the defense of our freedom. Show the world that we will defeat the plague of cowardice sweeping through the Republican Party.”

Cheney also told the hosts of “The View” that politicians must continue to talk about democracy, even if Americans are tired of the democracy message. 

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“We have to make sure people understand, especially independents, that if — when you get down to if it ends up being a choice, if he ends up as the Republican nominee, independents cannot say to themselves, ‘You know what, I don’t like a bunch of things about him but I’m going to go ahead and vote for him.’ We cannot take that risk, because we know what he’s done. He attempted to seize power, and he’s continuing every single day to make threats of political violence, he’s been absolutely clear he will not have around him again the people who stopped the very worst,” she said.