“Real Time” host Invoice Maher is sounding the alarm about President Biden’s sudden push to debate, saying it means he “knows he’s losing.” The HBO host additionally revived his push to swap Biden off the Democratic ticket, at one level questioning, “Is it too late to switch out?”
“To me it says Biden knows he’s losing because otherwise he wouldn’t have agreed,” Maher mentioned as he kicked off his panel dialogue Friday night time. “Only the loser wants to debate.”
Maher marveled on the thought of a summer season debate with the primary one slated for June 27, stating “They haven’t had the convention yet!”
“Well, they’re not getting any younger,” The Free Press reporter Nellie Bowles quipped.
The HBO host then posed the query if “any of this is going to make a difference to the election.” New York Instances columnist Pamela Paul responded by saying the debates “are not going to be decisive” whereas Bowles instructed they “might swing people.”
“Well, I think the guy who has more to prove is Biden,” Maher mentioned. “Trump is a known commodity. They know he’s gonna be an a– h–e. He’s gonna be lurking and growling and not obeying the rules and everything else. But Biden, they want to see proof of life.”
Paul responded by saying Biden has “already shown that he can stand up and give a rousing talk when need be,” probably referring to his State of the Union handle earlier this yr. Bowles joked that there may must be “drug testing” earlier than the debates.
“I feel like we have turned a corner though,” Maher later mentioned. “Like after the last election, it was ‘Trump is finished.’ And then a year later was ‘Well, he’s not going away.’ And then it was ‘Uh oh, he could win again.’ And now it seems like the consensus is almost Biden can’t win. And he is losing in all the swing states I think except Wisconsin and by bigger and bigger numbers.”
“Is it too late to switch out?” he then requested. “Because in these swing states where Biden is losing, it’s interesting. The Democratic Senate candidate is not losing. So it just says something, which is it’s not the party necessarily somewhat, but it’s the guy. They just don’t see him as the guy no matter what he does. He has plenty of victories. It doesn’t seem to ever move the needle, but the Democrats will have to get off their keister now. Now!”
Paul responded by alluding to the opportunity of the 81-year-old president’s passing, which Maher shortly clarified they have been “not rooting for that.”
“We sound like three kids around the hospital bed,” Maher quipped.
Maher beforehand pushed to change Biden off the ticket in February after the discharge of Particular Counsel Robert Hur’s report that fueled questions of the president’s psychological acuity.
