HBO's Bill Maher said New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani quotes Karl Marx and represents "straight up communism" on Friday's broadcast of "Real Time." BILL MAHER: The guy he just brought up, that's who you're all going to have to answer for.

Some of the things he says, you know he quotes Marxists, ‘each according to their need.’ I mean, that’s straight up Communism.” Maher was responding to guest panelist Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who claimed the Democratic mayoral frontrunner is being tagged as a “contrived villain or boogeyman” by Republicans to scare voters.

HBO host Bill Maher sounded the alarm Friday about Democratic Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, calling him “the most radical” figure to emerge in the city’s political scene. “We’ve never had someone this radical,