Actor William Shatner and HBO host Bill Maher debated why Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's messaging failed to resonate with voters.
Actor William Shatner admitted to 'Real Time' host Bill Maher that he didn't understand why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, as the pair discussed what went wrong for the Democratic Party on Maher's 'Club Random' podcast on Sunday. Maher opened his show suggesting the left's 'intolerance' to Democrats who don't toe the party line on every issue cost them votes this election.
Maher argued that President Biden was partly to blame for staying in the race too long. 'That, I understand,' Shatner replied. 'But inflation? Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don't know why they voted against her, against the party,' he said. Inflation and high costs of living consistently charted as top concerns for voters in polls leading up to the election. Maher said that Harris 'was not a great candidate' either.
That’s not a candidate,' Maher pushed back. 'That’s identity politics.' 'But those are elements!' Shatner argued. Maher conceded that while some voters will vote for a candidate simply because they 'look like them,' this election proved 'you have to go a lot further than that' to win over voters. 'You can’t just be, woman. Black person. I mean, Trump got a quarter of Black men!' Maher said.
This isn't the first time since the election that Maher has reprimanded the Democratic Party for failing to understand its constituents. Maher opened his first post-election 'Real Time' show by telling his party to 'look in the mirror' and realize that 'woke' policies and a bad candidate lost them the election. He has since scolded his party for 'doubling-down' on far-left policies.
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