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HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher torched Vice President Kamala Harris and her prospects at defeating former President Donald Trump in November’s election.
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.”
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Harris is already facing an uphill battle as she aims to become the Democratic nominee and take on former President Donald Trump in November.
During an interview on Fox News, contributor Ari Fleischer spoke about Democrats having “buyers remorse” with Harris.
“Maybe this is one of the reasons why they have not taken a position. What Ryan said, I think the Democrats are going to have buyer’s remorse here. After the press rallies around her, if she doesn’t pass Trump in the polls after this huge press love affair, what does she have?” Fleischer began.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if right before the convention she is trailing Donald Trump by a significant margin. What is the Plan C? Maybe that’s why they are being silent right now. Maybe they are being silent as Donald Trump waits for the nomination to be official. But either the boost that the press is going to give her is going to be real. Or Donald Trump is still the front runner for the presidency, that is going to scare the Democrats, just like it scared them to get rid of Biden,” Fleischer continued.
Fleischer added: “They muscled Biden into place even though he was too sick to run. Now they have muscled Kamala Harris into place. The Democrat people — have not had their choice. I predict that the corrupt media that lied and covered up about Joe’s cognitive state and went along with every Trump lie and peddled every conspiracy theory, you are going to see phony polls saying she is doing better than she is to try to bolster her, and then things will start to settle in. But I don’t know how they go to a plan c at this point. But you might be right.”
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Anger and frustration mounted inside Biden’s inner circle as well as with the president himself amid a cacophony of calls for him to drop out after a dismal debate performance last month and a collapse in polling.
According to sources who spoke to NBC News, Biden felt “Isolated, frustrated and angry. He felt betrayed by allies who turned on him in his hour of need.” The network quoted someone within the inner circle who said of Biden: “He’s really pissed off.”
The outlet said Biden spent the weekend with several close advisers and family, but Vice President Kamala Harris, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, and campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon were not among them.
The report also said that multiple advisers warned that Biden had no path to victory. “It became a no-win situation, a self-fulfilling prophecy,” former White House official Cedric Richmond said Sunday. Without money and support “it’s impossible to win, and he’s always put country and party first.”
Loyalists to Biden also were frustrated that members of the Democratic Party called on him to step aside instead of rallying behind him, the outlet reported.
Biden triggered new health concerns and conspiracy theories when he called into now-VP Harris’ HQ on Monday to show his support for her candidacy.
