On Friday’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said President Joe Biden’s deportation protection order was “a form of pandering” and that his comments about racism and student loan plans were also pandering.
Maher said Biden is “losing people who are supposed to be in the Democratic base.” “On immigration, we saw this week, he’s now allowing U.S. citizens, their spouses, to apply for green cards. They’ve lived in the U.S., sometimes for up to 10 years, and they’re not citizens, even if they’re married. I see. This is kind of pandering, and it’s not working. 45% of Hispanic voters support Biden, Trump’s 39%. Last time, Biden won with 59%. That was in 2020. So, he lost 14 points there. He went to Morehouse and said, ‘What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than other people to have a fair chance?’ That seems like pandering to me. With black voters under 50, he had an 80-point lead in 2020. Now he has a 37-point lead, which is still big, but he lost 43 points from that important base. Student loans, he forgave $144 billion in student loans, but only 36% of student loan holders like that. Politics is about pandering to some extent if you can’t get the support of the people you’re pandering to.” That’s not even an insult. To a certain extent you have to do what the people want and be a leader, but if you can’t win over these groups and you’ve lost 8% support from women since 2020, I read this week that the polls have him leading, explain to me why that is.”
He then added that former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s suggestion that tipping shouldn’t be taxed was “a form of pandering,” but that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) marijuana exemption “isn’t pandering if that’s how it works, it’s just good political sense.”
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