Bill Maher argued that Biden’s State of the Union address went well because it was mostly scripted, allowing Biden to stay on message.
However, Maher said Biden should limit interviews and press conferences as he often appears feeble or messes up off-script.
Maher suggested Biden employ the strategy of staying in his basement like in 2020, only coming out occasionally for major speeches, to avoid potential gaffes from extensive campaigning.
Maher said, “I think the strategy that Joe Biden should employ if he wants to win this election is just to come out every once in a while. I’ve been — when I first said he is going to be Ruth Bader Biden — and I still think that may be the possibility, I still think we still would do better with a younger candidate, but okay, maybe not, we’ll see. He did well last night. But everybody said, and I said, well, he can — I don’t think he’s doing a bad job as President, he can do the job, I don’t think he can win the job, because it’s a grueling thing to run for President. And everyone said, yeah, well, he can’t do what he did last time because there was a pandemic, stay in his basement.”
While some may call Biden a “zombie” for less visibility, Maher maintained it’s better than Biden risking appearances where he looks like a zombie through unplanned remarks.
“Yes he can. No one gives a shit about that, … the chattering classes will talk about it, and the public will [say,] what do I care, I don’t want to watch this all the time anyway, I don’t need to see him every day, he doesn’t need to go around the country. Stay where you are, every once in a while, make a speech like this. Trump proved in 2016 — he saved all his money and put one big ad at the end and people liked it better, they weren’t sick of him,” Maher said.
“This was great, it was on the teleprompter, and once in a while, they played right into his hands, somebody heckles him, he can riff, because he’s not too feeble to do that. But being on the [campaign trail], one bad piece of fish, one slip on the ice, one slip of the tongue, which he does all the time, they’ll just –.”
“I think it’s better to have them say you’re a zombie than to look like one,” he said.
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