Bill Maher slammed Kamala Harris for not taking responsibility for her loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
In the latest episode of his HBO show, the liberal comic critiqued the former vice president’s book, 107 Days, a reference to her notably brief presidential campaign.
‘Kamala Harris’s new memoir of the 24 election is called 107 Days,’ Maher remarked. ‘But it might as well have been titled Everyone Sucks But Me. 107 Days sounds like a title for victims, because, you see, she only had 107 days to win.
‘Sure, plus a billion and a half dollars, and an inherent support base of around 75 million people ready to back any near-human entity that wasn’t Trump,’ he continued.
He also pointed out that she heaps blame on former President Joe Biden for not dropping out of the race soon enough.
The then-81-year-old officially decided to step down on July 21, 2024, with Harris being named the Democratic nominee shortly thereafter on August 5.
Maher also poked fun at a part of Harris’s book where she accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of not returning her call when she sought his endorsement.
Newsom texted back, ‘Hiking. Will call back.’ According to Harris, he never did.
Bill Maher held nothing back on Kamala Harris, mocking her book ‘107 Days’, which details the unusually short duration she had to launch a presidential campaign following Joe Biden’s withdrawal in July 2024
Maher listed a number of grievances Harris laid out, including blaming California Governor Gavin Newsom for not calling her back fast enough to give his endorsement
‘Gavin Newsom, he was asked for his endorsement, but texted, hiking, we’ll call back. But then never did. And then he didn’t even ask her to prom,’ Maher said.
Of course, Newsom did end up endorsing Harris later on that day and explained that he didn’t realize it was Harris calling him.
Maher then tackled the controversy that was Harris not picking Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he is gay and that would have been ‘asking a lot of America’.
‘America, America itself, lets Kamala down by not being ready for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg. So she’s stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman, and the rest is herstory. Poor Kamala,’ Maher said, referring to her ultimate choice, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
‘We made her the star of a rom-com and didn’t even give her a gay best friend, he added.
‘Kamala writes that on election night, when it was clear she’d lost, an aide peeled the words, Madam President, off the cupcakes before handing them out. Oh, jeez, that’s like a scene from Bridget Jones Runs for President, for Christ’s sake,’ he said.
Harris did find fault with herself on her messaging, or lack thereof, on the issue of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play in female sports.
In the book, she appeared to acknowledge that her lack of a clear message on trans issues allowed Trump to define her however he wanted, even conceding that the ads he ran amounted to a ‘winning message’.
Harris did concede that President Donald Trump’s ads framing her as pro-trans were a ‘winning message’, even if she thought they were misleading
‘I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,’ she wrote in the book.
‘With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children,’ she added.
Still, Harris claimed Trump and the Republicans misrepresented her position on youth sports by running an ad campaign last fall with the tagline ‘Kamala is for they/them. I am for you’.
Her rhetorical pivot comes after many national Democrats, including Newsom, have said it is unfair for trans girls to play high school sports.
