HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher torched Vice President Kamala Harris and her prospects of defeating former President Donald Trump in November’s election.
“Vice President will get all of Biden’s campaign money, and on the Democrats’ best issue, abortion, she’s a walking reminder to women that Republicans are coming for the abortion pill. She won’t just protect Plan B, she is Plan B,” Maher joked.
“And as a former prosecutor, Kamala was putting criminals in jail back before liberals decided that was a bad thing. Now that CVS is locking the shaving cream behind plexiglass, Democrats are coming around to her again,” Maher added.
The HBO anchor continued by criticizing Harris’ complete lack of national electoral success.
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This is not the first time that Maher has ripped Harris.
Earlier in July, Maher slammed Harris for being deeply unlikable and reminded viewers that she won zero delegates when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020.
“Yes, replacing a president as his party’s candidate this late will seem like a big deal,” Maher said. “For about three days, and then we’ll all be over it.”
Maher listed several potential Democratic replacements for Biden, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Vice President Kamala Harris.
If she were to win in November, Harris would become the first female, first black woman, and first Asian to serve as president — none of which impressed Maher.
“I don’t vote for who will be the first, I vote for who will win and for whatever reason, Harris has never been popular,” Maher said before ripping on Harris’ failed presidential campaign four years ago.
“You can count the number of delegates she won in the 2020 primaries on one hand, as long as that hand has no fingers. In three years as vice president, she has been quieter than an electric car,” Maher said.
After criticizing the vice president for her mismanagement of the U.S. southern border when Biden appointed her as the “border czar,” Maher claimed he didn’t understand why Harris wasn’t more well-liked despite her being “intelligent and accomplished.”
This comes as two national polls revealed that Trump is regaining momentum from Vice President Kamala Harris, a shift from last week’s polls that showed the race as essentially deadlocked.
Surveys from CNBC and Rasmussen show Trump with leads over Harris of 2% and 5%, respectively.
CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey indicates Trump leading Harris 48% to 46%, with a significant boost in approval for his handling of the economy, where voters favor him by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
Additionally, the results remain largely consistent with CNBC’s July poll, which showed Trump leading Biden 45% to 43%, suggesting that Harris’s new challenge has not diminished his support among swing voters.
The Rasmussen survey also indicates that Trump is maintaining steady support in a direct matchup. However, when independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is included on the ballot, Trump’s support rises by 3% since July to 49%, while Harris and RFK each see a decline of 1% and 2%, respectively. With a margin of error of +/- 2%, President Trump holds a substantial lead in the large survey.
“It is less now a referendum on Trump than it is a head-to-head competition between the two candidates,” said Micah Roberts, partner at the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies who helped conduct the CNBC survey.
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In the eyes of voters, Jay Campbell, partner at Hart Research and Democratic pollster, firmly believes that Harris is making up for her boss’s shortcomings.
“She’s still carrying a lot of water for the administration,” Campbell said. “She has to answer for that and define herself independently…That’s a lot of baggage to carry when you’ve got a compressed time frame against a mature campaign on Trump’s side.”
The economy continues to be a top concern for voters, alongside immigration, both of which are areas where President Trump holds significant leads.
A large majority of Americans believe their financial situation would improve under a second Trump administration.
Additionally, Harris faces a challenge within her party, as only 48% of Democrats think she would be a better economic steward, while 42% believe it would make no difference.
