On Friday evening’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the liberal comedian doubled down on his recent comments that President Joe Biden is going to lose to former President Donald Trump in November’s election.

“Wow, huh? Huh? Did you see the debate?” Maher asked his audience in his opening monologue. “In case you missed it, don’t worry, so did one of the contestants.”

“All night, confused and halting and trailing off. I’ve seen beauty pageant contestants answer questions better,” Maher added.

Despite saying he would still vote for Biden — even if he were simply a floating head in a jar — Maher reiterated his previously stated belief, now bolstered by the president’s disastrous debate performance, that Trump will defeat Biden in November.

“He is going to lose. I said it nine months ago, I said it tonight. … Now, it seems like it’s so apparent,” Maher said.

Maher isn’t the only one seeing the writing on the wall for Joe Biden. Following Thursday’s debate, numerous commentators in the legacy media were openly discussing the possibility that Biden might have to step down for a new Democratic nominee.

NBC News’ Kristen Welker said Democratic lawmakers told her the race was “effectively over” while others went even further and started to “question what happens moving forward.”

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Far-left podcast host Cenk Uygur said that the race was over and that it was a bad idea for Biden to take on Trump. Biden “can’t even talk” or stand there “and look normal,” he exclaimed. “This thing’s a bloodbath. He’s going to get annihilated.”

In the face of the calls to step down, some prominent Democrats are pushing back. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she wasn’t calling for Biden to drop out. “I don’t know who’s doing that … I’m not doing it,” she stated.

Former President Barack Obama posted on X, “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.”

He added that “so much is at stake” in the November election.

Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

On Saturday, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season developed into a Category 1.

The hurricane, named Beryl, has sustained winds of approximately 75 mph as of Saturday afternoon, having grown from 60 mph on Friday when it was still a tropical storm. Beryl is expected to continue to strengthen as it travels west across the eastern Caribbean, potentially experiencing “rapid intensification.”

According to Eddie Walker, AccuWeather’s Senior Storm Warning Meteorologist, “Steering breezes will guide the system to cross the Windward Islands of the eastern Caribbean from Sunday night to Monday, then waters near Jamaica during the middle of next week and perhaps to the shores of Central America or southeastern Mexico at the end of next week.”

Another AccuWeather meteorologist noted that storms in this longitude and latitude are uncommon for this time of year, with only “seven named storms” forming “over the last 173 years” prior to Independence Day.

Beryl intensified into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, and the US National Hurricane Center said it may undergo rapid strengthening https://t.co/N9wbGDa00M pic.twitter.com/4T6DYfX4fm

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Fox Weather reported that the first hurricane in the Atlantic basin doesn’t typically arrive until around August 11 on average, so Beryl is ahead of the game, which is likely due in part to the unseasonably high ocean temperatures.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that 2024 will see an above average hurricane season, with 8 to 13 hurricanes, and 4 to 7 being classified as “major.”

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NOAA blames the likely above average season on the El Niño/La Niña pattern, as well as ocean temperatures, which “in May were closer to what we would expect in late August, when we are approaching the traditional peak of the hurricane season.”

When the 2023 hurricane season came to a close last year, it ranked as the 4th most active in the last 73 years of tracking, though only Hurricane Idalia made U.S. landfall as a category 3 in northwest Florida.