Maher challenges Vance on Trump election fraud claims: ‘That s— has to stop’

Comedian Bill Maher on Friday challenged Vice President Vance over President Trump’s false claims of election fraud, saying the GOP must stop insisting they were “cheated” by losses and return to a place where candidates concede defeat.

“Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be: Either we win, or they cheated. That s— has to stop,” he told Vance during the latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

The vice president was then asked whether he or Secretary of State Marco Rubio, two likely front-runners for the Republican nomination in 2028, would move the Republican Party away from Trump’s repeated allegations of voter fraud if elected president.

“Will you bring us back to the middle, at least on that, where we can concede elections?” the host asked.

Vance agreed that candidates should not refuse to concede elections, he framed Trump’s core argument about election fraud — particularly in the 2020 presidential election — as one centered on issues with the flow of information and........

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