“Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized the Democrats' election strategy and warned that the party couldn't take on Donald Trump, simply saying, “How can they like this guy?”
“I don't think it's a good strategy to run a Democratic campaign based on the question, 'How can they like this guy?'” Maher told panelists on his show last night.
“Some people just do it, maybe it's better to figure out why he's winning,” he told Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and actor Seth MacFarlane when it comes to certain demographics.
“Maybe there’s a fly in the ointment,” the comedian added.
Maher also said the Republican primary left him feeling “mortified” after Trump, 77, swept to victory in Iowa and then New Hampshire earlier this week.
“Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized Democrats for their Trump-centered election strategy
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff attended Maher's panel on Friday
“I've covered many primary seasons and this time I feel like I'm being harassed because this time it's not happening, it's already over,” Maher said.
“We don’t even get the casting phase of our reality show where we call an election.”
“I feel like I’ve been snubbed as a citizen,” he added.
“Trump is winning two blocs he has never won before, Hispanics and people under 35.”
“Democrats are losing Hispanics to the party of barbed wire,” Maher warned, referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s installation of barbed wire along the southern border.
Maher's comments come after recent polls show Trump with a six-point lead over Biden.
Trump's lead over the incumbent comes after he trailed Biden in a series of polls, with both men having low approval ratings and voters expressing displeasure with both likely candidates.
In the new Portal/Ipsos poll of 1,250 adults, Trump leads Biden 40 percentage points to 34.
Former President Donald Trump has a six-point lead over President Joe Biden in a new Portal-Ipsos poll
Maher's comments come after recent polls show Trump with a 6-point lead over Biden
Trump's lead in the poll comes on a day when he went to court Thursday for his second defamation trial against E. Jean Carroll
A sizable remainder are either unsure or plan to vote for someone else, bringing a potential wild card into the race. But Trump's lead remains even when third-party candidates are included.
This came after Biden grilled Trump over abortion rights during a speech in Virginia this week and Trump continued to call Biden “crooked” even though he spent much of his victory speech in New Hampshire ripping off Republican rival Nikki Haley.
When Trump handily defeated his only remaining primary challenger, Haley, in New Hampshire on Tuesday, about 67 percent of respondents surveyed Monday through Wednesday said they were “tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new.” Still, only 18 percent said they wouldn't vote if Biden and Trump were their choices.
Trump was ordered yesterday to pay E. Jean Carroll a whopping $83.3 million for defamation after he publicly denied sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in 1996.
The staggering amount was three times what even Carroll's own lawyers had asked for, and was immediately lambasted by Trump as “absolutely ridiculous.” He promised to appeal.
Trump had already left and was on his plane when the stunning verdict was announced, sparking an audible outcry in the Manhattan courtroom.
Carroll didn't stop for the interview, but smiled and waved as she got into a black SUV and left after she was awarded $83.3 million in damages
Carroll and her attorneys left the courtroom arm in arm with big smiles on their faces
After a two-week civil trial in which the former president testified for just three minutes, the jury had deliberated for less than three hours.
The case focused on comments Trump made about Carroll in 2019 after she accused him of attacking her in a fitting room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York nearly three decades ago.
Trump insists he has never met Carroll, 80, an advice columnist for Elle magazine.
He has repeatedly said that she is not his “type” and has called the court case a “witch hunt” and “election interference.”
However, the jury of seven men and two women ordered him to pay $7.3 million for “emotional harm” to Carroll and $11 million for “reputational harm.”
Trump was also ordered to pay massive $65 million in “punitive damages.”
The jury concluded that Trump acted out of “hatred, malice or malice” when he denied Carroll’s allegations in public statements and also called them “fiction.” He made these comments in 2019 when he was president.