Lower than 24 hours after CNN aired the primary joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Invoice Maher had some ideas on the questions Dana Bash requested the duo.
The host kicked off the newest episode of Actual Time by requested the viewers in the event that they watched the Thursday night time sit-down interview with the Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Tim Walz, “her emotional assist” vice chairman.
“It was a bit odd,” Maher quipped. “He was simply sitting there for a really very long time with out saying something. He was simply nodding whereas she did all of the speaking. The ladies’s focus group mentioned he have to be an exquisite husband. However actually, it simply stored going and he was saying nothing. It was like watching Jeopardy! when one of many gamers can’t work the buzzer.”
The comic famous that previous to the CNN interview, the media had been “livid” that Harris hadn’t achieved any in depth interviews with nationwide retailers since launching her marketing campaign for the White Home after Joe Biden stepped down in July.
Nevertheless, Maher mentioned, “Now she lastly does and never a single query about abortion, Ukraine, the homeless, the Opioid disaster, the nationwide debt.”
“After which they surprise why the children get their information from TikTok,” the host joked.
Maher additionally thinks main information retailers “at all times ask the stupidest query on the earth: ‘What would you do on day one?’ You already know, it’s not that form of a fucking job, OK? It’s simply not that form of a job.”
“I might only one time love to listen to any individual go, ‘You already know what I’d do? I’d unpack some packing containers and I’d dress for the inaugural celebration like anyone else,’” the comic added.
Harris and Walz’s first televised interview collectively on CNN drew 6.31 million viewers, in keeping with remaining same-day rankings from Nielsen. The Democratic presidential did talk about a few of her plans for serving to middle-class Individuals, in addition to dismissed a query about Donald Trump’s race feedback, telling Bash, “Standard, drained playbook.”
On Actual Time, Maher additionally famous that Trump “after all needed to shit tweet whereas he was watching” the CNN interview, calling it “boring.”
Nevertheless, the comic mentioned he “desires some boring,” including, “It’s Harris-Walz, not Deadpool and Wolverine.”
The visitors featured on the newest episode of Maher’s HBO present have been Rep. Nancy Pelosi, John McWhorter and Peter Hamby.