BACKTRACK On Biden? Bill Maher SWITCHES UP On POTUS

[Music] Bill Maher is having cold feed about the upcoming election and wondering if it's too late to swap out Biden for another Democratic candidate now his concerns come as latest polling by the New York Times shows Trump's lead in five Battleground states with Biden losing support from Young and non-white voters let's watch 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 with Consin and by bigger and bigger numbers um is it too late to switch out if the Democrats are going to do it what well just thinking is it too late I probably Bill Mah went on Fox news's Gutfeld show last night where he said Biden's problem is that he presents as old and ancient whereas Trump does not take a look at Biden's latest Gaff where he addressed a US hostage before correcting himself acknowledging that hostage was not in the crowd was still being held hostage my Administration working around the clock to free the remaining hostages just as we have freed hostages already and here with us to day is H go Goldberg Poland and still he he is not here with us but he's still being held by himas Bill Maher appeared on Fox news's gutfield last night where he criticized Biden's recent commitment address at morous college for talking about racism I mean that speech would have made sense some years ago I think we should acknowledge that racism still persists and we should always be making redeal remedial remedies for it um but we're not in the past I always keep saying let's live in the year we're living in we're not living in the year where you have to be 10 times better to succeed if if you're a person of color Bill Mah who is a vocal Trump opponent also addressed the country's polarization let's take a listen we are polarized I I don't think we can deny that the point is that we can also be friend we can't let's not let's not uh let's not pretend that these disagreements are not profound let's just say okay they are profound but you know what there's 90 other things we could talk about which we wouldn't disagree on and I can't hate you I've said it a million times you can hate Trump you can't hate all the people who like him it's half the country I also saw that he was on The View calling Trump a cadaver so he's making all sorts of media appearan is I guess yeah look I think that calling bav excuse me I think that Bill Maher is is right about a few things I'll start with the easiest which is that the mor house speech that Biden made did feel like it was from a different era it felt like the same sort of platitudes that Democrats have delivered to Black voters for years and black voters I think are finally coming around to the idea that Democrats just saying um I'm not as racist as the other guy isn't actually materially uh changing their lives for the better and when you ask all voters including black voters what their priorities are they do talk about uh economic issues housing um the economy generally speaking and Biden reming on promises like uh canceling all student debt for HBCU students certainly is a big economic failure uh on that score um moreover I think that his concerns about Joe Biden not staying the course not being able to get through this because of gffs like the one we just watched in that pole uh that Rose Garden clip which are so difficult to watch uh and other concerns that are not age related like his handling of the war on Gaza are really pulling him down Prim Tucker who we've had on the show he's a reporter over at The Intercept he pointed out that in 2020 uh Biden won by such slim margins in a number of states he won by 31% in Arizona 63% by uh in Wisconsin a little over 1% in Pennsylvania a little under 3% in um Minnesota uh and on and on Michigan rather and on and on and on and he looks at an electoral map and sees and says this is what happens if Biden loses just Arizona Wisconsin and Pennsylvania it's Trump who gets to 273 and wins the election we're talking about a hair's breath of uh opportunity here for Joe Biden to claim this election and I don't think it's wrong for Bill Mah to be asking the question of whether or not his loss is inevitable and that consequently even if it's a big risk to switch him out at this stage it's it's better than basically having a guaranteed loss it's starting to feel inevitable uh Nate silver keeps pointing out that you know people can say well the polls have been wrong in the past and they could be wrong now but they could just as EAS like assuming that that the factoring in the likelihood that they're wrong favors the candidate you think is behind is is a total fallacy because they could be wrong in the opposite direction they could be it could be more favorable for Trump than the polls look so just saying well you know we know the polls have this fluctuation and sometimes they undercount on either side in fact we can point to a lot of Cycles where they've undercounted Trump's support not the Democrats support that's what happened in 2016 that even to an extent what happened in in 2020 the projections had Biden winning frankly by more in a lot of places including winning Florida which he didn't win so so just just assuming that it's it's it must be wrong and and Biden could be CL could be you know closer than he is that could be the case but a lot of things could be the case yeah frankly I think more often than not the polls are right it's not that the polls are wrong it's that people want to select ly read into the polls and in 2016 I remember it vividly Hillary Clinton basically didn't get out of the margin of error in terms of the gap between she and Donald Trump except for the week or two around the Access Hollywood tape that's the only time she really pulled away people should have been a lot more concerned about how close that race was in the first place democrats should have been a lot more concerned about it um meanwhile I have to say this I was not working for the campaign at the time it was an anonymous citizen but I was looking at polls showing that Bernie Sanders was polling 10 points ahead of B of trump clearly ahead of Donald Trump in that race and Democrats then as now seem to be making the decision that it's better to back the guy whose turn it is uh rather than the person who poll suggests can easily uh beat the candidate and so the question though I think I would put to Bill Maher is given his other sort of ideological uh choices who is going to be replacing Biden and are they going to be suffering from a lot of the same issues now the age related cond of related issues I would imagine would be cured by getting another basic Democrat stooge to fill his place a you know a Gavin new type or whoever it is but part of uh prim's point was that this is some new reporting out of The Intercept some 20% of Democrats and independents in Wisconsin Arizona those all those states that I mentioned say that Biden's handling of the war in Gaza makes it less likely they'll vote for him so if if you already are only winning by fractions of a point or a couple of points at Best in those States and 20% of the people who voted for you are saying that they're less likely to do so because of your position on the conflict in Gaza is it really likely that a replacement for Biden is going to take a hard turn away from America's closed allyship with Israel probably not so is this really a kind of Biden issue or is this a Democratic party kind of establishment issue where they're always going to be to the kind of center of Republicans and a or Donald Trump specifically in a change cycle where people want an outsider not an establishment candidate and the other issue there is even if it doesn't you know overall maybe it doesn't matter that much but we we know where Michigan is the state where his stance on Israel is most likely to cost him voters and it happens to be the most or second you know tied for the most with Pennsylvania important state for him to win the most the state most uper grabs and it's clearly the one where uh where his policies are hurting him with a specific kind of yeah it's interesting because weirdly enough uh even though there was a huge uncommitted turnout 100,000 voters uh voting uncommitted as opposed to for Biden in the primary and it does have the country's largest uh Arab and Muslim population there of those uh what is it seven swing States uh six of which Biden was losing Michigan was the only one where Biden's still up that was was that I said that was uh Wisconsin I was I pretty sure it was Michigan it was it was ironic um so I don't lose I've looked at the numbers he can lose he can lose Arizona and Georgia but then has to hold he has to have Michigan and Pennsylvania to win and he he will win by the narrowest of conceivable majorities even if he loses um Arizona and Georgia but has to have Michigan and Pennsylvania and it will be fascinating to watch Oh no you're right sorry you're right so Michigan Arizona Nevada Georgia and Pennsylvania um Biden only LED in Wisconsin so yeah I I so I take your point yeah and Nevada Nevada's Nevada seems lost to him yeah so I mean I this this is a train that we've been seeing coming down the track for a very long time at the end of last year Biden representative said that they thought the whole Gaza thing was going to blow over nobody was going to care I think now people are hoping that with the end of the school year and these commencements the encampments are very least are going to go away and maybe Joe Biden will be able to show his face at a university without getting heckled uh someplace sometime closer to the election but that does seem like to be does seem to be a lot of wishcasting and what we do know for certain is that the Democratic party seems to be sticking the landing here and unwilling to change to meet what voters are complaining about what does that ultimately mean for not just Joe Biden's presidential chances but any Democrat who might hope to replace him more Rising right after [Music] this sorry it's

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Published: Sat May 25 2024