Comedian Bill Maher said on HBO's “The President's Choice” on Friday that he thinks former President Trump will lose the 2024 presidential election in November.
“Tonight, I'm going to say this: I think it's over,” Bill Maher told political commentator and Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson and former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“I think he's going to lose,” Maher added.
Maher added that he believes he has credibility to make this prediction because he has previously been called a “Trump provocateur” and believed the former president still had a chance after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tapes in which Trump bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent.
Soltis Anderson immediately turned against Maher.
“I don't have the same confidence as you about how this situation is going to turn out,” she said.
She argued that polls aside, Trump's strength lies in the fact that voters know him and his policies, which is why he can still get away with it.
“If you look at these battleground states, it's still a 50/50 situation,” she said.
According to The Hill/Decision Desk polls, Harris is leading Trump by less than 1 percentage point in battleground states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania.
But Maher wasn't convinced.
“It's going to be a tie on Election Day,” Maher said. “It's going to be a tie in the polls and he's going to lose. That's my prediction.”
A Hill/Decision Desk average of national polls shows Harris leading Trump 49.5 percent to 46 percent.
