Bill Maher and a group of panelists on HBO’s Real Time Friday night determined that it would be a mistake to count out Donald Trump in the 2016 race.
Maher compared Trump to Ronald Reagan and said the reaction that he is getting is similar to the one Reagan got when he first announced he would run.
“For all those people who say Donald Trump cannot go all the way, I don’t think they’re right. They didn’t think he would get this far. And obviously, I don’t know what the results are from last night, but Fox tried to put a stake in him and I don’t think they did,” Maher said.
Real Time panelist Steve Schmidt agreed.
“It’d be crazy to dismiss his chances to be the Republican nominee when you have 17 candidates in the race. He’s polling at 25 percent right now. He may collapse, but he may not. You can certainly be the Republican nominee getting 25, 26, 27 percent of the vote. His message is powerful, which is, ‘Our leaders in Washington are incompetent. The country is falling apart. I’m gonna fix it and make America great again.’ He’s not talking about policies, a lot of what he says is nonsense talk, but he is saying out loud what millions of people across this country are screaming at their television sets every night,” Schmidt said.
“The notion he can’t win, I think, is dead wrong.”
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