Donald Trump ‘Definitely Going to Lose’—Bill Maher

Comedian Bill Maher said on Friday that former President Donald Trump is “definitely going to lose” amid this year’s presidential election.
With less than six weeks until the election in which Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, is set to face off against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, the race is tightening.
In an Overtime segment on Maher’s HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, during a panel that featured writer Fran Lebowitz, Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, and political consultant Ian Bremmer, Maher said he was not worried about Trump winning the presidency because he’s “definitely going to lose.”
“It seems like the amount of time, the gap between when we repeat the mistake gets shorter and shorter. I mean Trump was only president four years ago and we’ve seemed to completely have amnesia about what that was like,” Maher said.
Bremmer interjected, “We still don’t know if we are going to repeat that mistake.”
However, Maher dismissed the argument and said, “We’re not. I’ve already put my marker down on that…I’m not even worried about it.”
“You’re not even worried about it?” Lebowitz asked.
Maher remained firm on his stance and said, “No, not at all. Yeah, no, no, no, he’s definitely going to lose. You just feel it,” adding that while he previously predicted this, the polls will remain close even on Election Day.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s and Harris’ campaign via email for comment.
Maher, a critic of Trump’s, also said on Friday that the former president “knows he’s losing and he’s losing to a woman” as he spoke about Trump’s previous remarks on Truth Social in which he said women will be “happy and great again” if he wins in November.
The former president made the remark in a lengthy Truth Social, his social media platform, post last week.
“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS SAFE ON THE STREETS THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE MORE DEPRESSED AND UNHAPPY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!” Trump wrote, before saying that he will “fix all of that.”
“WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE!” he added. He went on to say the lives of women will improve because abortion will return to state-level decision-making, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and the mother’s life, while opposing late-term abortions. He also promised unprecedented protections for women, ensuring their health, safety, and well-being.
In response to the Truth Social post, Harris-Walz 2024 spokesperson Sarafina Chitika previously told Newsweek that “Trump may think he can control women and tell us what to think, but women are not stupid.”
She added: “Women hear his threat that we ‘will no longer be thinking about abortion’ and know it is just his way of trying to trick people about his Project 2025 plan to ban abortion nationwide. Trump is scared out of his mind that women will vote like our freedoms and our lives are on the line this November—and he should be, because that’s exactly what we will do.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung previously told Newsweek: “Kamala Harris is a blithering idiot who has no real ideas other than to throw the country off a cliff. She is unqualified and everyone knows it.”
Maher’s remarks come as national polls have shown the two nominees neck-and-neck or narrowly ahead. As of Saturday, Harris is ahead of Trump, leading the former president 48.6 to 45.7 percent, a difference of 2.9 points, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.
While national polls are good to gauge what the overall American public thinks of each candidate and therefore what the popular vote might be, battleground states will play a key role in determining the result of this year’s election due to the Electoral College, which awards each state a certain number of electoral votes based on population. A presidential candidate needs to secure 270 electoral votes for victory, and winning the national popular vote does not guarantee success. Surveys from battleground states may be more telling than those of national polls.
According to the latest New York Times/Siena College polls, Trump is gaining on Harris in two key swing states.
The polls, published on Saturday, Harris has 48 percent of voter support in Michigan where Trump is slightly behind with 47 percent, which is well within the poll’s margin of error. In Wisconsin, Harris is leading Trump by just 2 points (49 to 47 percent). However, Wisconsin polling has historically overstated support for Democrats.
The Times/Siena polls were conducted from September 21 to 26 and surveyed 688 likely voters in Michigan and 680 likely voters in Wisconsin. Each poll has a margin of error of about plus or minus 4 percentage points.