“Actual Time” host Invoice Maher was fast to dismiss rising excuses from journalists for Vice President Kamala Harris’ crushing defeat towards President-elect Donald Trump.
Throughout Friday night time’s on-line “Additional time” section, ABC Information contributor Sarah Isgur argued Harris was “set as much as fail” by Democrats when she was tasked to run a “three-month marketing campaign” as she was alleged to “introduce herself to the American folks.”
“You are saying three months wasn’t lengthy sufficient?” Maher requested. “It was lengthy sufficient. It isn’t that they did not have time to introduce- they met somebody and so they did not like ’em.”
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MSNBC analyst John Heilemann additionally supplied a protection of Harris, arguing she was in a troublesome place being the vp of somebody unpopular like President Biden.
“Invoice, I do not know if you understand this, however the vp of america is principally shoved in a brush closet for three-and-a-half years,” Heilemann mentioned.
“I do know, she was extra standard in there,” Maher quipped. “This concept that in a mass media age that 107 days will not be lengthy sufficient to know any person?”
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Moments later, Maher turned to his viewers and requested whether or not they did not know sufficient about Harris “just about after per week to decide.”
“It is ridiculous!” Maher exclaimed. “We simply get sicker of them!”
“Why do it’s a must to make all these excuses for her?” Maher then requested. “All it was this week was individuals who say ‘Oh, she ran a flawless marketing campaign.’ How ridiculous. Or ‘It’s sexism. It is racism.’ That is an outdated playbook!”
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“I did not say any of this,” Heilemann pushed again.
“I do know, however I heard loads of this stuff,” Maher continued. “I believe America is completely keen to elect a lady. They only did not just like the final two that had been put up.”
The HBO host later added, “She did not make case. She did not denounce the previous stuff that individuals did not like. She simply tried to disregard it,”