“I don’t suppose you possibly can decide that from Barbie not getting nominated,” stated Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tonight to Invoice Maher when requested by the host if the snub of the blockbuster’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie within the Oscars nominations means America is a patriarchy or not.
When Maher tried to hyperlink the Barbie dialogue to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 marketing campaign, Schiff put issues in actual perspective on Actual Time. “I might vote for a corned beef sandwich over Donald Trump,” he quipped to applause don’t say that evenly, however no less than a corned beef sandwich would have some intelligence and wouldn’t be a dictator on Day one.”
Simply days after a full debate between the main candidates for California’s open Senate seat, Rep. Schiff discovered himself within the barely heat seat once more tonight on HBO‘s Actual Time with Invoice Maher. Blockbuster Barbie snared a lot of well-deserved Oscar nominations earlier this week, together with Greatest Image. Nevertheless, Gerwig and Robbie have been disregarded of the Directing and Greatest Actress classes – which has seen a tsunami of shock within the days since
A close to common on Actual Time present over time and clearly admired by Maher, the inexperienced room pleasant Schiff is the entrance runner to fill the late Dianne Feinstein’s footwear within the job the ex-San Francisco mayor held from 1992 to her loss of life final 12 months. Appointed by Golden State Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2023 after Feinstein’s passing, present Sen. Laphonza Butler introduced in October that she wouldn’t search election for a time period of her personal.
The Congressman from Hollywood since 2001 and one of many deepest thorns in Trump’s paw through the former Movie star Apprentice’s reign of terror and error, the very well-funded Schiff has been main the Senate race since he by his hat in again in January 2023. Whereas something might occur in California politics, the actual battle is for the quantity #2 spot with fellow Democrat Rep. Katie Porter and GOP contenders/former Dodger Steve Garvey battling it out heading to the March 5 major.
Schiff shared panel time on Actual Time tonight with huge Democrat donor and Ted kingpin Seth MacFarlane. And there was loads of love there, because the duo made clear after the present:
Throughout tonight’s Actual Time, some non-Barbies snubs got here up earlier, as Maher put the 2024 Presidential election right down to eight or so swing states — none of them being California.
“I want the worst I felt was snubbed,” Schiff stated of the electoral realities and the potential of Trump returning to the White Home. “I’m terrified.”
“How is it potential that this man who says he desires to be a dictator on Day one, who has been indicted on 91 felony counts, who has been impeached twice, who led an revolt – how is it potential that he’s operating away with the nomination of certainly one of America’s nice events?” the previous Impeachment Supervisor went on to say of the MAGA chief. “That to me is terrifying.”
“Even in the event you take a look at what I contemplate his least transgression,” Schiff stated to Maher. “He’s sitting within the Oval Workplace behind the Resolute Desk signing hush cash fee checks to a porn star,” he added of Trump’s tried cover-up of his affair with Stormy Daniels. “How is ir inconceivable that man is a candidate for president?”
Not naming Daniels, Schiff took out a well-planned shiv on the notoriously shifty and dishonest Trump: “She was apparently the one contractor really obtained paid.”
Afterward CNN’s Actual Time after present Time beyond regulation, Schiff stated it was “true justice” that Trump was order by a New York defamation trial jury to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll, who final 12 months gained one other case towards Trump for a mid-Nineties sexual assault. “The one factor he cares about is himself and cash, and going after the cash is the one strategy to result in some actual justice.”
Trump already stated Friday night he’ll attraction this newest verdict. Noticeably looser on Time beyond regulation versus Actual Time, Schiff then predicted Joe Biden will win in November as a result of “on the finish of the day, America goes to have a President who’s a good human being, who doesn’t sh*t on different individuals.”
Although conscious of his poise and phrases with voters watching, Schiff on Actual Time performed to his personal base and put the blade in deeper later when speaking about immigration and Trump’s empty or merciless guarantees of reform and difficult measures. “That’s not a politician, that’s a grifter in Donald Trump.”
As one would anticipate, when it got here to his personal celebration’s candidate for the White Home in 2024, Senator-to-be Schiff was filled with nothing however reward for incumbent Biden – particularly in the case of immigration of all points.
“I believe one of many issues the President is doing now, which we actually haven’t completed within the final 12 months is lean into this situation, take possession of this situation and make the case for why what Democrats are providing,” loyal soldier Schiff stated of a subject that the GOP on the state and nationwide stage have been battering Democrats with for years. “Invoice, I believe what the celebration has completed, which is a mistake, is take the view that once we’re speaking about immigration that’s the difficulty that’s favorable to them. We wish to speak concerning the points which might be favorable to us.”
“That’s a quite common political technique, however it’s not working,” Schiff advised Maher. “We’ve to lean into this. The President at this time is leaning into this, he’s calling out the Republicans for killing a possible bipartisan invoice.”
A possible immigration invoice that Senators on either side have been getting near consensus on till Trump demanded Republicans now asphyxiate to disclaim Biden a possible win, as each Maher and Schiff identified Friday.
Earlier than Schiff and MacFarlane have been on the present, Maher sat down with by no means not opinionated ESPN host Stephen A. Smith. The 2 bonded over their mutual mistrust of the federal government, the media and every thing else besides sport, with a swing at nepo infants.
Earlier to that sit-down, Maher delivered his customary topical monologue earlier than the studio viewers. Zipping over subjects similar to these Oscar nominations snubs of Barbie’s Gerwig and Robbie, and naturally Trump’s dominance of the GOP race along with his newest New Hampshire major victory, Maher got here out with certainly one of his finest zingers in a very long time.
“The race is over,” he acknowledged, noting the truth that the 2024 election shall be a repeat of the 2020 election between the now 77-year-old Trump and 81-year-old Joe Biden. “This dangerous information for the nation, excellent information for individuals who construct ramps on debate levels,” Maher stated, to very large applause from the gang.
The one second of the night time to counter that was MacFarlane’s excellent timing in response to a Schiff story about false data on social media that his sister (the Congressman doesn’t have a sister) had married progressive financier George Soros’ daughter. As Rep. Schiff advised the story of the assault on him for this, the Household Man creator whipped out his telephone to “delete some texts.”
All people misplaced it, in the easiest way.