William Shatner and Bill Maher Have Fiery Debate Over Whether Kamala Harris Was a 'Great' Presidential Candidate
Nov. 18 2024, Published 2:28 p.m. ET
William Shatner seems to be happy Kamala Harris is not in the White House next year.
"She was not a great candidate. Let’s be honest, when she said when asked..." Bill Maher said about Harris, 60, on this week's edition of his "Club Random Podcast."
"Why isn’t she a great candidate? She combined several trends of thought here. Black, woman..." the Star Trek star, 93, replied.
"That’s not a candidate. Those are. You know, that’s identity politics. That’s one of the Democrats’ problems," Maher, 68, pushed back, noting Donald Trump "got a quarter of Black men" who voted for him.
"You know, he didn’t do much better in generally because the women are very much against him. But he killed it with Latinos. If there’s any great irony in this election is that the guy who came down the escalator ten years ago talking about 'they’re rapists,' they keep giving him more of their votes. And again, I understand this..."
Maher added: "Democrats don't understand their own constituencies. If you’re a Mexican American, who do you fear taking your job? The guy who just came in through the border! The Democrats could have won this election in a walk, I think. Not a walk, but I think they could have won it if [Joe] Biden got out earlier. They had a true primary season to find the best candidate. Not just one whose turn was it? Who, by the way, before they anointed her? Nobody was sort of on the page that she was very good at being a candidate or..."
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Shatner fired back, stating, "She failed the first time."
Shatner did insist there's one thing that bothers him about Trump being in the White House.
"The thing that worries me the most is global warming. You can, you know, the wrong financial advice or then get rid of whatever government agencies you want to get rid of," the actor stated. "You can always put them back in four years later. But you can’t lose four years of global warming. I mean, we’re seeing these storms hit now. And once in a thousand years, storms are now hitting every other year, every year. And it’s not like you can say, well, you know, it’s going to get better. It’s not."