Bill Maher Goes All in for Sanders: ‘F*ck Yeah’ He’s Ready to Be Commander-in-Chief

Bill Maher really let loose tonight on the idea that Bernie Sanders doesn’t have a chance to be president, telling the “I like Bernie but…” people to just “shut up.”

He said in an election year where Donald Trump is giving the finger to every single person who said he wouldn’t make it in the election, people shouldn’t be throwing cold water on Sanders’ chances when he could actually go all the way.

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner pushed back a bit on the Sanders love, saying he preaches “absolute idealism” and asking Maher if he honestly thinks Sanders is qualified enough to lead America on the world stage.

He cried, “Fuck yeah! The guy who voted right on the Iraq war? Yea, I do.”

Things got a bit awkward when Ben Carson adviser Armstrong Williams tried to pile on Sanders’ foreign policy chops, only for Maher to turn the tables and ask him what about his own guy’s “no qualifications.”

Watch above, via HBO.

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