“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out Democrats for their election strategy, warning that the party cannot beat Donald Trump by simply saying, “How can they like this guy?”
“I don’t think it’s a good strategy to run a Democratic campaign based on ‘how can they like this guy?'” Maher told panelists on his show last night.
“Some people just do that, maybe it’s better to look at why he’s winning” with certain demographics, he explained to Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and actor Seth MacFarlane.
“Maybe there’s a fly in the ointment there,” the comedian added.
Maher also said the Republican primaries have left him feeling “teased” after Trump, 77, swept to victory in Iowa and then New Hampshire earlier this week.
‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher took aim at Democrats for their Trump-centric election strategy
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff was on Maher’s panel Friday
“I’ve covered a lot of primary seasons and I feel like I’m being fooled this time because it’s not happening this time, it’s already over,” Maher said.
“We don’t even get to have the audition phase of our reality show that we call elections.
“I feel like I have been rejected as a citizen,” he added.
“Trump is winning two blocks 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 Governor Greg Abbott, who installed razor wire on the southern border.
Maher’s comments come after the latest polls show Trump gaining a six-point lead over Biden.
Trump’s lead over the incumbent president comes after he defeated Biden in a series of surveys, with both men having low approval ratings and voters expressing displeasure with both likely nominees.
Trump leads Biden by 40 to 34 percentage points in the new Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,250 adults.
Former President Donald Trump has a six-point lead over President Joe Biden, according to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll
Maher’s comments come after the latest polls show Trump gaining a six-point lead over Biden
Trump’s lead in the polls comes on a day when he went to court Thursday for his second defamation trial against E. Jean Carroll
A significant portion are unsure or plan to vote for someone else, introducing a potential wildcard into the race. But Trump’s lead holds even when third-party candidates are included.
It comes after Biden hammered Trump on abortion rights during a speech in Virginia this week, and Trump continued to label Biden as “crooked” even as he spent much of his victory speech in New Hampshire tearing into Republican rival Nikki Haley.
While Trump handily defeated his only remaining primary challenger, Haley, in New Hampshire on Tuesday, some 67 percent of respondents polled Monday through Wednesday said they were “tired of seeing the same candidates in the presidential election.” and want someone new.” Yet only 18 percent said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice.
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 labeled “absolutely ridiculous” by Trump. He promised to appeal.
Trump had already left and was on his plane when the stunning verdict was handed down, causing an audible gasp in the Manhattan courtroom.
Carroll did not stop for an interview, but smiled and waved as she got into a black SUV and left after being awarded $83.3 million in damages.
Carroll and her attorneys walked out of the courtroom arm in arm with big smiles on their faces
Jurors had deliberated less than three hours after a two-week civil trial in which the former president testified for just three minutes.
The case focused on comments Trump made about Carroll in 2019 after she accused him of assaulting her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York nearly three decades ago.
Trump insists he has never met the 80-year-old Carroll, an advice columnist for Elle magazine.
He has consistently said she was not his “type” and has described the lawsuit as a “witch hunt” and “election interference.”
However, the jury, consisting of seven men and two women, ordered him to hand over $7.3 million for “emotional damage” to Carroll and $11 million for “reputational damage.”
Trump was also ordered to pay a massive $65 million in damages.
The jury concluded that Trump had acted out of “hatred, ill will or spite” when he made public statements denying Carroll’s allegations, including calling them “fiction.” He made those comments in 2019, when he was president.