Bill Maher makes this bold prediction for 2024 after the Trump-Harris debate

“Real Time” host Bill Maher made a bold prediction about who will win the 2024 election after the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I'm going to make this evening a very momentous occasion with a prediction,” Maher began his panel discussion on Friday evening. “Because I have the credibility for this prediction because I was called a 'Trump alarmist' for a very long time. They were wrong, I was right – he would not give up power. But since then and since the [Access Hollywood] Band… and he survived it. Every time he did crazy shit and got himself in trouble, I said, 'No, no. It's not over yet.'”

“Tonight I say: I think it's over,” Maher said, drawing cheers from his liberal audience.

He continued: “Even before we existed, there was a man named Joe McCarthy in the early '50s who had a tight grip on America… For two or three years he was the biggest guy, and then it was just – and I feel like we're at this point where we're 'eating the dogs.'”

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Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson responded to Maher: “I do not share your confidence.”

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“I know people don't think the polls are very accurate. Putting all that aside, the reality is that people have known Donald Trump and who he is for a very long time,” Soltis Anderson said. “And when you ask people, 'Do you need to know more about these candidates?' with Kamala Harris, they say yes, about three in 10 people say, 'I feel like I need to know more to make a decision.' But when you ask that with Donald Trump, only a fraction of voters say that's the case. So people know who he is, and yet he's still competitive. If you look at those swing states, the odds are still 50-50. He's holding up.”

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“Election day will be close, as always. The polls will be close, and then he will lose. That's my prediction. We'll see,” Maher reiterated his forecast.

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Soltis Anderson continued to call Harris a “blank slate” to most voters and said progressives allowed her to get away with sounding like a “keynote speaker from the 2004 RNC,” citing her comments during the debate about gun ownership and her touts of support for former Vice President Dick Cheney.

“I want to push back on your assessment,” Maher told her. “I don't think anything she says now makes her conservative… I just think it shows how far we've moved. Where she was in 2019, in 2020 she was super far left, super what we call 'woke.' I know people don't like that term, but OK, there she was. Now I feel like she's just center-left. I mean, I don't know if fracking, even fracking, has to be something we disparage in that way. I mean, we're trying to get the environment in the best condition possible, right?”

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Despite Maher's own assessment of Harris's political shift, Soltis Anderson insisted that she is not out of the woods yet.

“I think her problem is that she has so many positions from the past that she has changed significantly,” the pollster said. “And I don't think she was asked nearly enough in this debate why she made this change, other than the fact that this new position is very popular in Pennsylvania?”

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