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From Fox News: President Donald Trump’s historic comeback in the 2024 election has left many political pundits dumbfounded, but one writer believes Trump’s support among one sizable but little-discussed group carried him over the finish line. And she was one of those voters.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist for The Free Press and author of “Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women,” had a viral exchange with Bill Maher, who challenged her on her support for Trump on last Friday’s installment of his HBO program “Real Time.”
He mistakenly referred to her as a “conservative Republican.”
“I was never a Republican or a conservative,” Ungar-Sargon told Maher. “I was a leftist, and I’m still a leftist. I’m just a MAGA leftist now because—”
“That makes no sense,” a perplexed Maher reacted.
Maher tried to get Ungar-Sargon to say she regretted voting for Trump, but instead, she turned the tables on him.
Sharing a video of the exchange later, she wrote, “People always ask how I identify politically. I am a MAGA Lefty. Trump’s pro-worker, anti-war, socially moderate America First agenda was the Democrats’ platform for a century. Now it’s MAGA. I’m deeply humbled by everyone who reached out to share that this resonated with them.”
WATCH the viral exchange below:
People always ask how I identify politically. I am a MAGA Lefty. Trump’s pro-worker, anti-war, socially moderate America First agenda was the Democrats’ platform for a century. Now it’s MAGA. I’m deeply humbled by everyone who reached out to share that this resonated with them. pic.twitter.com/mhwQViidg9
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 17, 2025
Ungar-Sargon later discussed her support for Trump on a Fox News interview.
“Since I was on Bill Maher, I have gotten thousands, and I mean thousands, of messages from people saying, ‘I am just like you. Thank you so much. That’s who I am. That’s what I am.’ And these are the people who gave President Trump his victory,” Ungar-Sargon explained.
“Because he wouldn’t have won if he only got people who had voted Republican in 2020, in 2016. He won because he convinced millions of people in swing states and across the country that he had their best interests at heart, many of them who had been Democrats. And I guess that’s who I speak for,” she continued.
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