In November, comedian Bill Maher took issue with actor Jon Cryer’s account of Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the 2024 presidential election, arguing that Cryer’s arguments will lead Democrats to further defeats. .
Harris lost all seven battleground states and the popular vote to President-elect Donald Trump. According to Go to Cook Political Report. Cryer, “”club random” Harris blamed her defeat on public dissatisfaction with inflation, but Ma suggested the problem ran deeper. (Stream The Daily Caller’s latest documentary “Cleaning Up Kamila” here)
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“Transgender people in my life are really scared at this point…They’re in a situation right now that they’re personally scared of, because this election is going to make this particular Not only was the outrageous chain of elections targeted at them, it was accepted,” Cryer said. “And people are accepting that it’s like, okay, yeah, we dehumanized it, it was politics, whatever.”
“Well, that’s another reason why Democrats shouldn’t have blown it,” Maher shot back.
During her 2020 campaign, Harris expressed support for taxpayer-funded gender transitions for transgender prison inmates and undocumented immigrants, a position she did not take. go backwards Currently campaigning for the 2024 election. The Trump campaign took advantage of this issue. advertisement During the football game, Harris claimed to support such policies.
“You can blame them all you want. Again, I think there was a global reaction to the rise in inflation post-COVID… As I said, Americans I hate inflation,” Cryer said.
“If you keep telling yourself that, you’re going to lose next time,” Maher retorted.
Cryer also argued that the Democratic Party moved further to the right during Harris’ short term. Maher responded that the lack of 107 days would not be a problem for Harris to campaign.
“Time doesn’t matter. She could do it in two weeks. If anything, she had too much time,” said the comedian. “For the first two months she was fine – I was really happy – but then I thought, “This is so old-fashioned, more than people need to think – she had 107 days to live.” 7 would have been better. In other countries it takes less than 100 days.
Maher also said in October that defeating Trump would require overcoming the public perception that Harris was aligned with far-left policies.
“Kamala’s big challenge in attracting undecided voters will be convincing them that she is not what they suspect, a stealth version of the left’s worst excesses. I think so,” Maher said. “I said there’s a coalition of people who voted for Trump, people who really like him, certainly those people, and then there are people who don’t necessarily like him that much, but they Still, we think he’s less crazy than those who actively attack him as anti-protesters.” – That’s the norm on the left, and that’s why they keep running ads about gender reassignment in prison. is. ”
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