Liberal comedian Bill Maher said that Democrats had no excuses for their resounding losses during this week’s elections and that the party had to take a long look in the mirror to find out what went wrong.
Maher made the remarks on his HBO “Real Time” show Friday evening while discussing the outcome of the election with ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur, MSNBC analyst John Heilemann, and actor Michael Douglas.
“My message to the losers: losers look in the mirror,” Maher said during his opening monologue as his audience went silent. “No? Well, maybe you should. Well, that’s my feeling. Losers look in the mirror.”
“For months Democrats have been saying, ‘How is this even close?’ and they’re right, it wasn’t,” Maher said.
He added, “This country has had enough of the anti-common-sense woke bullshit.”
It was so bad on election night that Kamala called McDonald’s to see if she could get her old job back. pic.twitter.com/Fl0YO6Z4tJ
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 9, 2024
During his panel discussion, Maher pushed back on claims that Vice President Kamala Harris did not have enough time to be known by voters.
“It was long enough,” he said. “It’s not that they didn’t have time to introduce — they met someone and they didn’t like ’em.”
Heilemann claimed that the problem was that Harris had been “basically shoved in a broom closet for three-and-a-half years.”
“I know, she was more popular in there,” Maher quipped. “This idea that in a mass media age that 107 days is not long enough to know somebody?”
“It’s ridiculous!” Maher exclaimed, noting that people got “sicker” of Harris the more they got to know of her.
“Why do you have to make all these excuses for her?” Maher asked. “All it was this week was people who say ‘Oh, she ran a flawless campaign.’ How ridiculous. Or ‘It’s sexism. It’s racism.’ This is an old playbook!”
