‘Trump Does It All The Time!’ Bill Maher Challenges David Hogg On Dems ‘Telling People Not To Believe Their Eyes’
Comic and political pundit Bill Maher challenged DNC official David Hogg on his assertion that Democrats failed by not speaking honestly, citing President Donald Trump’s success as his rebuttal.
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guests was David Hogg, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and co-founder of the Leaders We Deserve PAC.
The panel guests were Donna Brazile, political strategist, ABC News contributor, and former DNC chair; and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY).
During the interview, Maher grilled Hogg about his theories for why the Democrats lost, and repeatedly called out what he saw as misdiagnoses. Maher chalked Trump’s victory up to “woke stuff” and said disconnection with reality was no obstacle with voters:
BILL MAHER: I mean, if you go and look why they didn’t vote for them, it was more of the woke stuff, wasn’t it? Isn’t that the strategy that Trump employed? Like, she’s for they, them, and he’s for you. That was the big ad that worked.
DAVID HOGG: I think the reason why that worked, though, Bill, is because people felt like they weren’t heard by us.
Voters told us two things more than anything in the past election, and I’m going to get a lot of heat for what I’m about to say from my fellow Democrats.
But we told people, people heard from us that Joe Biden, people said to us that Joe Biden is too old, and they said the prices are too high.
And we said with, we said, with the power of $2 billion behind us, no, he’s not, then yes he is. And then, no, they aren’t.
Look at this graph of, you know, the stock market or whatever it is.
If you tell people not to believe their eyes or their wallets, you’re going to lose them. And part of what I’m trying to do here is…
BILL MAHER: Trump does it all the time!
DAVID HOGG: Well, he is Donald Trump. Ultimately, unlike Republicans, Democrats have the hard job of making government work.
We don’t run on the idea that it’s not gonna work and then do a terrible job by screwing up our economy with tariffs and then blaming the guy that just came before us and saying, oh, this is all because of this when we see clearly it is his fault.
What we’re here to do, Bill. What we are here to do is to make government work and that’s always going to be harder to make something work than it is to make it fail, but that is the secret task that we’re trying to take on.
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