{"id":696132,"date":"2026-10-31T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=696132"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:52:04","slug":"kid-rock-douses-bill-mahers-hopes-of-a-republican-thumping-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=696132","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock douses Bill Maher\u2019s hopes of a Republican \u2018thumping\u2019 in midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musician Kid Rock pumped the brakes on comedian Bill Maher\u2019s prediction that Republicans will experience a \u201cthumping\u201d in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The rocker, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, joined \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d where he unapologetically delivered reality check after reality check to the liberal host and his audience.<\/p>\n

At one point, Maher emphasized his thoughts about the GOP getting decimated at the polls on Tuesday, November 3.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t trust the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kid Rock steps in to temper Bill Maher\u2019s expectations after Maher predicted a \u201chistoric thumping\u201d of the Republican Party in the midterms.<\/p>\n

Rock warned Maher that the media doesn\u2019t decide elections\u2026and that voters aren\u2019t necessarily seeing the same picture of President Trump accomplishments that\u2019s presented on television.<\/p>\n

MAHER: \u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot recently that said, oh no, let\u2019s not count our chickens\u2026well, I\u2019m counting my chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock let Maher finish before jumping in with a little reminder of what happened in 2016.<\/p>\n

ROCK: \u201cI can look at the first election with Hillary Clinton. I remember going to bed that night, I\u2019m like, there\u2019s no way my guy can win. There\u2019s no way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was convinced from the media it couldn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about your favorite sports team like you just woke up every day and you saw the Mets lost. They never told you that they won.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock pointed to the border and the Iran war, making the case that the long-term consequences of the administration\u2019s decisions remain to be seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill this be good for our country in ten years? You know, time\u2019s going to be the ultimate determiner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m sticking with mine, that this will be a historic thumping of the Republican Party,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot recently that said, oh no, let\u2019s not count our chickens\u2026well, I\u2019m counting my chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are very, very mad at the Republican Party, at the Trump presidency. This is their way to express it,\u201d Maher added.<\/p>\n

Ritchie tempered the host\u2019s confidence with a look back at 2016, when businessman Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, despite assurances from talking heads and polls that she was invincible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can look at the first election with Hillary Clinton. I remember going to bed that night, I\u2019m like, there\u2019s no way my guy can win. There\u2019s no way,\u201d the 55-year-old singer recalled.\u00a0\u201cI was convinced from the media it couldn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed to the reality of the biased media, noting that the only way to learn of President Trump\u2019s \u201cwins\u201d is \u201cwhen he tells you about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about your favorite sports team, like you just woke up every day and you saw the Mets lost. They never told you that they won,\u201d he continued. \u201cDo we ever hear anything about the border? We can talk about the Iran war all we want, and people don\u2019t have to like it. They can be for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ritchie emphasized that \u201cwe do not know how this is going to play out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWill this be good for our country in ten years? You know, time\u2019s going to be the ultimate determiner,\u201d he added. \u201cSo, I don\u2019t trust the polls\u2026I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be a shellacking. And if it\u2019s not, that\u2019s kind of a win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Musician Kid Rock pumped the brakes on comedian Bill Maher\u2019s prediction that Republicans will experience a \u201cthumping\u201d in the upcoming midterm elections. The rocker, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, joined \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d where he unapologetically delivered reality check after reality check to the liberal host and his audience. At one… Continue reading Kid Rock douses Bill Maher\u2019s hopes of a Republican \u2018thumping\u2019 in midterms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}