Bill Maher Analyzes Media Excuses for Kamala Harris' Loss: America Just Didn't Like Her

“Real Time” host Bill Maher was quick to dismiss journalists' growing excuses to justify Vice President Kamala Harris' landslide defeat to President-elect Donald Trump.

During Friday night's online “Overtimes” segment, ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur claimed that Harris was “set up to fail” by Democrats when she was tasked with running a “campaign of three months” when she was supposed to “introduce herself to the American people.” “.

“Are you saying three months isn’t long enough?” » asked Maher. “It was quite a long time. It's not that they didn't have time to introduce themselves: they met someone and they didn't like them.”

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher says Americans have more than enough time to get to know Vice President Kamala Harris and they “don't like her.” (Screenshot/HBO)

MSNBC analyst John Heilemann also defended Harris, arguing that she was in a difficult position as vice president to an unpopular person like President Biden.

“Bill, I don’t know if you know this, but the vice president of the United States is basically put in a broom closet for three and a half years,” Heilemann said.

“I know, she was more popular there,” Maher joked. “This idea that, in the age of media, 107 days isn’t enough time to know someone?”

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech following the 2024 presidential election Wednesday, November 6, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Moments later, Maher turned to his audience and asked if they didn't know enough about Harris “after about a week to make a decision.”

“This is ridiculous!” Maher exclaimed. “We’re even more fed up with them!”

“Why do you have to make all these excuses for him?” Maher then asked. “All there was this week was people saying, 'Oh, she ran a flawless campaign.' How ridiculous. Or “That’s sexism.”

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Maher panelist Sarah Isgur argued that Vice President Kamala Harris was “doomed to fail” when she became the Democratic nominee following President Biden's delayed exit from the race. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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“I said none of that,” Heilemann replied.

“I know, but I’ve heard a lot of these things,” Maher continued. “I think America is more than willing to elect a woman. They just didn't like the last two proposals.”

The HBO host later added, “She didn't make a good case. She didn't call out past things that people didn't like. She just tried to ignore them.”