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"Real Time" host Bill Maher urged liberals to not "hate" the Republicans who, despite political differences, accepted President Biden's election victory.

During a panel discussion Friday night, Maher decried polling that shows a growing number of Americans, particularly young Americans, believe a civil war and political violence is acceptable and that some on both sides of the aisle believe it's "time to split" the country by party.

"I just want to know what this looks like how does that work?" Maher asked. "Is there gonna to be a line of cars from Arizona going into California? And the 4 million Trump voters that we have in California are going to be driving into Arizona? What does that mean, time to split?"

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie responded by saying he doesn't "buy" the seriousness of the polling, dismissing it as expressed "anger" by Americans.

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Christie pointed to the aftermath of the January 6 riot where lawmakers "did their jobs" and proceeded to certify Biden's electoral count, which he stressed Biden "had" won the election, proving the strength of U.S. democracy, "not the other way around."

Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit at Grand Hyatt New York on Sept. 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit) (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

"You're in the minority of your party at least of the people who are running," Maher told the former governor. "Two hundred ninety-nine of the Republicans who are running [in the midterms] a majority they don't think the election was fair and Biden actually lost."

"We'll see how they do," Christie replied. "In the end, you gotta get out there and fight that."

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The HBO star then explained what he calls the "As Good As It Gets" Republicans, something he swore was a compliment to politicians like Christie.

"The people who just are adamant about how they won't even talk to Republicans," Maher said. "You want something that's not gonna be. Republicans see the world differently. It's OK. We have to have that. But this is as good as its gets Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Kinzinger but even Bill Barr, and Pence, they both and Mitch McConnell have all said this was a legitimate election. That's as good as it gets, liberals, for Republicans. Deal with that! Don't hate those people."

"Real Time" host Bill Maher referred to politicians like Mike Pence, Mitch Mitch McConnell and Bill Barr as "As Good As It Gets" Republicans who accepted President Biden's election victory in 2020. (HBO/Getty Images)

During his closing monologue, Maher lambasted political "bubbles" forming across the country.

"I've gotta say, more than anything, this is what is wrong with this country. Our real division isn't between red and blue, it's between the people on both sides who aren't willing to mingle with Americans outside their political tribe so they have no idea what they're really like," Maher told his audience. "I asked a friend of mine recently if he wanted to come to a little party I was having and when he found out one of the guests had voted for Trump, he told me he wasn't coming because, I wouldnt breathe the same air.' OK, there's a word for people like this: a------s."

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"When we confine ourselves to bubbles, alternative points of view become not just objectionable, they're unfavorable," Maher said while railing against GOP Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, who alleged Biden didn't win his state because he personally never met a Biden voter. "Mark, have you ever been to a Whole Foods? Or talk to a woman under 50?"

"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday by railing against political "bubbles" that have formed across the country. (HBO) (HBO)

Maher slammed the idea of Americans choosing not to move to other parts of the country because they "wouldn't feel welcomed."

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"Would anyone ride the New York City subway wearing a MAGA hat?" Maher wondered. "Would anyone go to a NASCAR race in a Biden T-shirt while they chant, F--- Joe Biden?' That's where we are now where other parts of the country are seen as scary, no-go zones. America is like a prison now where the inmates think they need to join one of the gangs to survive and we dare not to walk on the wrong side of the yard."

Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.

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Politicians have been using migrants as props for decades. Republicans visit the Southwest border and declare that immigration is out of control. During the Trump administration, Democrats made their way to detention centers to decry the treatment of children locked in cages.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas took the tactic to a new level Thursday, busing about 100 people including many who said they were fleeing violence or poverty to Vice President Kamala Harris doorstep. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a separate group of migrants to Marthas Vineyard, a playground for wealthy liberals, on Wednesday evening.

The two buses Abbott sent to Washington arrived outside the Naval Observatory just after sunrise. Reporters were on the scene before the humanitarian group that has been leading resettling efforts here since April, when Abbott and Arizonas Republican governor, Doug Ducey, started sending thousands of migrants to Washington and other liberal cities.

Amy Fischer, an organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, said she and other volunteers found out about the newest arrivals on Twitter. Her group is most often mobilized to help buses that arrive early in the morning or late at night at Union Station, the train and bus hub thats just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

The migrants were welcomed and soon taken by Uber, Lyft and private volunteer cars to a church that the group has been using to help people bathe, eat and figure out where they plan to settle, whether in Washington or elsewhere. Fischer said her group has helped about 6,200 people so far.

This whole project is a racist publicity stunt that doesnt uphold the agency and human rights of those who are arriving to seek safety, Fischer said.

But it is forcing some Democratic leaders to adjust policy in order to process the unexpected arrivals. Washingtons Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, declared an emergency last week to free up $10 million in funds after the Pentagon rejected her requests for help from the National Guard.

We have a system that is failing those that are arriving to seek safety, Fischer added. And instead of states and localities and the federal government and Congress addressing the real needs, its turned into a game of political football.

President Biden asked Harris last year to address the root causes of migration from Central America. Republicans have referred to her as the Biden administrations border czar a title she has resisted and conservatives have pilloried her all week for declaring in an NBC News interview over the weekend that the border is secure.

Those remarks triggered Abbott to send the buses to Harriss home, he tweeted Thursday.

VP Harris claims our border is secure & denies the crisis, Abbott wrote. Were sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.

Border agents recorded 1.9 million encounters with migrants between October 2021 and the end of July, an all-time high. This number doesnt represent individual migrants because many migrants try to cross the border and are apprehended multiple times.

The issue did not come up during a speech Harris delivered later in the morning at the White House event aimed at combating hate-filled violence and her office did not respond to emailed questions.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called for the Justice Department to investigate DeSantis actions, citing reports that migrants said they were recruited based on false representations that they would be taken to Boston and given expedited access to work authorization.

The fact that Fox News and not the Department of Homeland Security, the city or local NGOs were alerted about a plan to leave migrants, including children, on the side of a busy D.C. street makes clear that this is just a cruel, premeditated political stunt, said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

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The word "woke" originally used to describe awareness of discrimination has been adopted by figures onthe political right to discredit policies and politicians they considertoo progressive, experts say.

The word was directedearlier this week at the Liberals and NDPbyConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.And some Liberalshave been dancing around the term when asked about it by journalists.

"It's a term that's been evolving fast," said Jennifer Saul, a professor who specializes in the philosophy of political language at the University of Waterloo.

"For a while, there were people happily identifying themselves as woke. Itnow has been adopted as a term of abuse."

After Poilievre was elected to lead the Conservatives, a number of Liberal MPs told Radio-Canada that they want their party to shift to the centre to combat Poilievre's populist brand of conservatism.

"We need a government that is down to earth and less woke,"one MP, speaking on the condition they not be identified, told Radio-Canada.

Poilievre would later call the Liberals and the NDP who are supporting the government through a confidence-and supply-agreement a "radical woke coalition" in his first address to caucus as Conservativeleader.

Poilievre'suse of "woke" as a pejorativehad a number of Liberal cabinet ministers circling the word cautiouslyduring the party's caucus retreat earlier this week.

"Frankly, I don't even know what it means to be woke.I'm working to serve Canadians," said Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

"I certainly don't believe I'm woke, trust me, and no one in my family believes that either," said Innovation and Science Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne.

Even NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh didn't explicitly embrace the term when asked about it during an interview on CBC Radio's The House although he did sayhe doubts Poilievre understands what it means.

"I don't think that Mr. Poilievre knows what he means when he says that. I don't think he understands what he's saying when he just throws the words around," Singh told host Catherine Cullen in the interview airing Saturday.

"I think it's a baseless kind of position. It doesn't really add up to the reality," he said, adding that his party's focus is on getting help to Canadians.

The use of the term "woke" in a political context originates with black activists in the United States in the early- to mid-20th century, according to McGill political science professor Terri Givens.

Givens said it was used as a term of vigilance, calling for greater public awareness of racial discrimination. As a black woman growing up in the United States, she said, she was very familiar with the term.

"I've heard this term throughout my life," she said. "It's a term that means, 'We need to wake up to the fact that [discrimination is] happening to us.'"

Givens said that while the term has been used withinblack communitiesin North America for decades, it gained prominence in the wider public discourse during the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Saul said that in the years following the rise of Black Lives Matter, people started applying the term more broadly toawareness of other social issues, such as sexism, poverty and the challenges facing LGBTQ people.

Both Saul and Givens said the term has since been seizedby right-wing figures to castigate people or policies they see as too progressive.

"This has become a blunt instrument of the right," Givens said.

Saul agrees but notes that "woke"has gained some negative meaning on the left as well. The term"woke-washing," he said, is used to describe the actions of people or organizations thattry to convince others theycare about certain issues.

Both Saul and Givens said Poilievre's use of the word to discredit the Liberals, and subsequent attempts by some Liberals to distance themselves from it,are notsurprising. The same things are happening inthe U.S. and Europe, they said.

"I think a defence of, 'Yes I'm woke and proud of it' is unlikely to succeed because the term 'woke' has become so thoroughly appropriated," Saul said.

Givens said she doesn't think the historical context of the term is understood by either the Liberals or the Conservatives.

"It really pains me to see politicians throwing these terms around [as] a quick soundbite, instead of having a nuanced conversation," she said.

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Senior members of the South Australian Liberal Party say the organisation has avoided a bloodbathin the wake of the party's election losses at a state and federal level earlier this year.

A rumoured conservative takeover of the party's executive failed to eventuate at today's state branch annual general meeting, although a member of the faction was elected as the state president.

The meeting was held at the Hungarian Club in Norwood, rather than at the Adelaide Convention Centre,with speeches and extra events cancelled out of respect for the Queen.

Despite rumours of a conservative takeover following a recruitment drive by Right faction senator Alex Antic, the result was more mixed.

The membership strongly supported former candidate for Kavel, Rowan Mumford, asthe new state president but, after the meeting, Senator Antic was not prepared to declare the result a success.

"I just love democracy, I love coming to these meetings, hanging out with like-minded friends, good result, good people," he said.

Other executive positions were won by a mix of conservative and moderate candidates.

The party appointed moderate Alex May as state director in July, whileDavid Speirs a conservative was chosen as Opposition Leader in April after the election loss in March.

Mr Speirs today claimeda win for balance and harmony with the party "not lurching over to the far right" or "trying to out-left the Left".

"Contrary to all the public speculation, no takeover has occurred by one particular group within the party and this is exactly what I was after," he said.

All three of the party's leaders are in their 30s.

"The generational shift for our party has been dramatic over the last few months," Mr Speirs said.

"It's refreshed, it's renewed, it's reinvigorated."

Members told ABC News the party administration badly needed updating to make the Liberals electorally competitive again.

Party elders were relieved that factional fighting did not take centre stage.

"Common sense has prevailed," former federal Liberal MP Trish Worth said.

"It shows that we can have confidence in the wisdom and integrity of state council delegates because they've elected people from the broad church."

Former MP Christopher Pyne said the media had over-hyped the divisions in the party.

"I think you're all being a bit dramatic," he said ahead of the meeting.

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Ottawa, ON Raquel Dancho, Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Safety, released the following statement after media reports revealed a dangerous ISIS child trafficker could be walking the streets freely in Canada:

According to a Globe and Mail report, Mohammed al-Rashed, a Syrian human smuggler for the Islamic State recruited to spy for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), was recently freed from prison and promised asylum and relocation to Canada.

The Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino however is refusing to confirm whether the former ISIS child trafficker was granted asylum or any details regarding his whereabouts.

Mr. al-Rashed was convicted of smuggling three school-aged girls as young as 15 years old to ISIS terrorists, this after being recruited by CSIS. Canadians deserve to know that they and their children can walk the streets safely without being confronted with such a dangerous criminal.

Canadians were promised a feminist government. A transparent government. What they are getting is the exact opposite. They have a government that would put the safety of our young women in peril and will go to enormous lengths to hide that fact.

We are calling on Minister Mendicino to tell Canadians the truth, and if the Trudeau Liberal government put a dangerous criminal on our streets they must explain themselves to Canadians.

Conservatives will continue to push for answers and hold this tired government to account. Most importantly, we will use all the means at our disposal to make sure Canadians are safe from dangerous criminals. Anything less is unacceptable.

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