Real Time presenter Bill Maher raised the alarm ahead of former President Trump’s much-anticipated speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he is expected to tease another presidential run in 2024.
Towards the end of this Friday night panel discussion, Maher brought up a topic he “ didn’t want to talk about, ” namely the 45th president, whose scheduled CPAC speech on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, will be his first major. public action since leaving office.
‘After he lost, people kept coming to me and [saying], ‘Do you go?’ and I say, ‘He’s gone. Stop obsessing. I don’t want to talk about him! Began Maher. “But knowing what’s going to happen at CPAC this weekend, I have to bring this up. … The shark is not gone. We need a bigger boat. The shark went out to sea for a while, it comes back and eats more people on the coast. “
Maher continued: “He will say on Sunday that he is the presumptive nominee in 2024, no one will oppose him, there are nine panels at the CPAC convention all telling how the election was stolen, none on why she was lost. . That’s where they are. If you think 2024 won’t be a nail biter or he won’t be the nominee, I think you’re naive. “
Maher’s guest, Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., Agreed, declaring Trump the “ absolute front runner right now, ” who could “ very well ” be the GOP nominee in 2024, citing the drastic turnaround of Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who stated that Trump would “absolutely” have his vote despite his fierce condemnation of the former president after the January 6 uprising at the Capitol.
Fellow panelist Ezra Klein of The New York Times stressed that the ‘problem’ is not Trump, but the Republican party ’empowering him’, adding that they ‘don’t have the courage’ to tell the former president he that is. “Bad for the party right now.”
“The two wings of the party I can see are Trump and then the people who want to bring his constituents, who want to be his successor,” Maher replied. There are Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and Nikki Haley. They want to be the next nominee, but they have no intention of losing voters. They just want to be Trump’s successor. ”