Maher Battles MSNBC’s Heilemann On If Harris’s Low Visibility as VP Helped or Hurt: She Was ‘MORE Popular’ When ‘Shoved in Broom Closet’!
HBO’s Bill Maher sparred with MSNBC analyst John Heilemann about Americans’ rejection of Vice President Kamala Harris, and whether her low-visibility while part of President Joe Biden’s administration was helping or hurting her popularity.
Heilemann argued that Harris did not have ample time to introduce herself to the electorate, while Maher countered the VP was more popular the less people heard from her.
Three days after former President Donald Trump defeated Harris, winning the popular vote and the Electoral College, Maher discussed the race on Friday’s edition of Real Time.
Heilemann argued Harris’s three-month campaign put her at a major disadvantage while Trump had nearly a decade to introduce himself to voters:
If you’re the sitting vice president for a president who has throughout his entire term in office been sitting at about somewhere between 35 and 40 percent approval rating, countries on people view the Biden administration as a failure. We can have a long discussion about whether they are right about that, about the economy. But the perceptions of the economy were that people thought inflation was too high.
People thought we were on the wrong track, 75% wrong track numbers, and this huge inflation overhang. You’re the sitting vice president and you get –elevated to the top of the ticket 107 days ahead of the election. I think that that is a very high degree of difficulty you put on anybody, and I do not think she is the perfect candidate.
Heilemann argued that with an open primary, Harris probably would “not have been the Democratic nominee. ”
He argued, “The vice president is basically shoved in a broom closet for three and half years.”
Maher retorted, “She was more popular in there!”
Heilemann concluded Harris did not have the advantage of a Democratic candidate such as Barack Obama, who spent 2007 and 2008 visiting voters across the country before defeating John McCain.
Watch above via Real Time with Bill Maher.
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