Host “Real Time” Bill Maher expressed his concern that Joe Biden was not “comfortable ahead” of President Trump as much as he would have to be aheasd less than 90 days from the 2020 presidential election.
During a panel discussion with former White House hopefuls Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang, Maher spoke about the current state of the presidential race as Biden prepares for his party’s nomination at the Democrats’ convention next week.
“Biden is forward, but he is not, in my view, comfortably forward. Not for my comfort,” Maher said. “I mean, Hillary was more forward at one point. And I just had to ask, ‘What is your party doing against this walking disaster?’ [Trump] that you can not close the gap better then? “
Buttigieg replied, Maher said that “it’s never just about policy” in a presidential race.
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“The policy of this administration was a disaster, the leadership of this administration is a disaster, we know that,” Buttigieg explained. “But still, I think there are a lot of people who have heard a message – fraudulent though it was, a message that here is someone who sees you and cares about you. Now is our chance to change that. “And I think Joe Biden is really focused on making sure we reach out.”
Maher then asked the panel if he thought the Democratic Party “was taken prisoner by its far-left fringe.” Yang dismissed the claim, but raised another issue facing the party.
Former Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, left, and Andrew Yang, shown in stock photos, discussed the 2020 presidential election on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday night.
“When I was campaigning around the country, I said, ‘I’m running for president,’ and someone would say, ‘Which party?’ and I would say, ‘Democrat,’ and you could often see that negative reaction, ” Yang Maher said. “And this comes from truck drivers, waitresses or retail clerks, whom I thought the Democratic Party was fighting for. And the fact that our message does not reach Americans. I think the Democrats need to do some soul-searching and say, ‘Why is it, why is it that so many people think the Democratic Party is not talking to them, not fighting for them, begging them? “
“Our message does not reach certain Americans. I think the Democrats need to do some soul-searching.”
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Yang went on to say, “I think the Democratic Party has a tendency to deliver a message in a certain way and then say, ‘If you don’t get that message, it’s your fault.’ Instead, we should go to the people where they are and talk to them in a way that they appreciate and understand.I think Republicans unfortunately get that to a higher degree than Democrats.And as a result, we are In danger of being seen as this urban party as the party of the oppressed elite and that is what an opening has been made for Republicans to do their thing in the last number of years. “
