HBO star Bill Maher on Monday rejected actor Jon Cryer’s argument that Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election because “Americans hate inflation” and her lack of time to prepare, saying Democrats will “lose the next one too” if the party believes that.
In an interview on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Cryer blamed widespread concerns with inflation and other economic factors for President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November, an explanation that Maher rejected.
“The trans people in my life feel, at this point, really frightened. … They’re in a place where they’re personally terrified right now, because not only was this election the outrage cycle of this particular election [that] targeted them, but, it was accepted,” Cryer said. “And people, you know, accept that it’s like, OK, yeah, we dehumanized them, it was politics, whatever.”
When Maher said, “Well, another reason why the Democrats shouldn’t have blown it,” Cryer responded, “You can blame them all you want. I believe, again, that there was a worldwide reaction to the inflation bump after COVID. … As I said, Americans hate inflation.”
Maher then said, “You keep telling yourself that and you’ll lose the next one too.”
The host also rejected Cryer’s argument that Harris lacked the necessary time to prepare since President Joe Biden withdrew from the race only 107 days before Election Day.
“Time has nothing to do with it. You could do it in two weeks. If anything, she had too much time,” Maher said. “She was doing good for the first two months — the joy s*** — and then it just, you know, this — it’s so antiquated, this idea that people need more than — she had 107 days. It would have been better if she had seven. Other countries don’t take 100 days.”
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