Bill Maher says electorate simply 'didn't like' Kamala Harris

In the wake of weeks' worth of mainstream media polls telling Americans that the presidential race was a dead heat, it is no surprise that liberals everywhere are still coming to grips with the shock they now feel in the wake of Kamala Harris' crushing defeat.

However, according to comedian and Real Time host Bill Maher's recent breakdown of events, there are some very straightforward reasons why the Democratic Party's nominee did not win on Tuesday, including the fact that the populace simply did not like her, as Fox News reports.

Maher weighs in

During his Friday “Overtime” segment, Maher held little back in terms of his assessment of the presidential contest and the outcome that had progressives reeling.

Maher responded to an observation from ABC News' Sarah Isgur, who suggested that Harris had been “set up to fail” by party leaders who pushed her into the race with such a short lead time.

Expressing immediate skepticism, Maher replied, “You're saying three months wasn't long enough? It was long enough. It's not that they didn't have time to introduce – they met someone, and they didn't like 'em.”

John Heilemann of MSNBC added his two cents, suggesting that the last years of Harris' career had been spent in the shadow of Joe Biden, allowing her exposure to the electorate.

Again, Maher shot back incredulously, saying, “This idea that in a mass media age that 107 days is not long enough to know somebody?”

Not buying it

Maher dismissed those who attempted to explain away the loss, including those who blamed prejudice against female candidates or candidates of color.

“Why do you have to make all these excuses for her? All it was this week was people who say, 'Oh she ran a flawless campaign.' How ridiculous. Or 'It's sexism. It's racism.' This is an old playbook!” he added.

Maher went on, “I think America is perfectly willing to elect a woman. They just didn't like the last two that were put up,” later declaring of Harris, “She didn't make a good case. She didn't denounce the past stuff that people didn't like. She just tried to ignore it.”

That sentiment echoed those expressed on Friday by former Hillary Clinton campaign insider Philippe Reines, who lamented the tight grip the far-left factions of his party have had on the Democrats' direction in recent years.

“Most Democrats I know think there is a huge problem at the border. Most Democrats I know think, frankly, that males at birth should not play women's sports and vice versa,” Reines stated, and, just as Maher suggested, those are the sort of things that Harris stubbornly refused to acknowledge for the three months she stood atop her party's ticket, costing herself an untold number of votes.