Bill Maher has a bold prediction for the 2024 election.
“I’m going to make this a very momentous night with a prediction,” Maher told his guests, former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and conservative pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, on Friday’s episode of the HBO show “Real Time”. .”
The prediction? That “it’s over” for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“I think I have the credibility for this prediction,” Maher said, noting that he has been labeled a “Trump alarmist” in the past.
He said he correctly predicted that Trump would politically survive past controversies, such as the infamous one “take them in the pussy” Go Hollywood band.
“Every time he’s done crazy shit and gotten in trouble, I’ve said, ‘No, no, it’s not over,'” Maher recalled.
Now Maher feels different.
“Tonight I say, I think it’s over,” he said bluntly.
The comedian compared Trump’s rise to the “hold on America” practiced by the former senator. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) — best known for his persecution of Americans suspected of being communists during the Cold War — said McCarthy’s popularity “blew out” in two to three years.
“I feel like — eat the dogs — we’re at this point,” Maher said, referring to Trump spreading a rumors without proof about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“I just think he’s going to lose.”
The prediction marks a sharp shift from what Maher said when President Joe Biden was still running for re-election. After Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June, Maher warned that Trump would beat Biden and that Democrats would “regret” keeping him as their nominee. Biden later dropped out of the White House race, making room for Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket.