Invoice Maher needs the Democratic Occasion to do some critical reflecting after as soon as once more dropping a presidential election to Donald Trump.
His imploring message on the prime of Friday’s “Real Time,” nonetheless, initially appeared to confuse his personal viewers.
“We’re gonna hear about both tonight on the panel, and throughout the whole show, the winners and the losers,” stated the host and Trump critic in his opening monologue. “My message to the losers? Losers, look in the mirror.”
“No?” Maher added, when the gang met him with surprised silence. “Well, maybe you should.”
Maher ultimately earned some applause after pivoting to a joke and criticizing pundits who felt blindsided by the outcomes.
“For months, Democrats have been saying, ‘How is this even close?’” Maher informed the gang. “And they’re right — it wasn’t. They could not conceive of a second Trump term, but they should’ve. When does America ever turn down seconds?”
The outcomes left many pundits in shock, nonetheless, as Trump ran a particularly xenophobic marketing campaign centered on “bloodthirsty” migrants “bringing bad genes” into the nation — and the notion of him successful amid quite a few felony indictments appeared unlikely to many.
Maher’s friends within the Democratic Occasion have exchanged loads of blame within the days since Harris misplaced. Reasonable Democrats like Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have claimed the get together’s leaders are out of contact with the working class’s financial struggles. Nonetheless others have blamed Harris’ unwavering help for Israel’s brutal navy marketing campaign in Gaza.
Maher, in the meantime, had one other analysis, which he made after a jab referencing the anti-trans advertisements Harris’ opponent ran.
“Make no mistake, this election was very much about what I’ve been saying here, and lost a lot of fans for saying over the years,” Maher argued Friday. “That this country has had enough of the anti-common sense woke bullshit.”
Whereas numerous pollsters predicted a detailed election that Harris would finally win, Trump swept each battleground state — with even historically blue areas of the nation shifting towards his conservative insurance policies — which Maher made mild of Friday.
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“This is just the facts,” he informed the viewers. “Trump won all the swing states, all seven — he ran the table. Trump won so big, today he called the Secretary of State in Georgia, and he asked them to lose him 11,000 votes.”
Trump, who was caught telling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him as many votes after dropping the 2020 election, and was later indicted on election interference fees, is nonetheless now set to retake the White Home on Jan. 20, 2025.
In a while in his present, throughout the “Overtime” phase, Maher mocked MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid for praising Harris’ now-failed marketing campaign.
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“All this was this week was people who said, ‘Oh she ran a flawless campaign’ — how ridiculous,” he added. “Or, ‘it’s sexism, it’s racism.’ This is an old playbook … I think America’s perfectly willing to elect a woman — they just didn’t like the last two that were put up.”
