Joe Biden’s campaign is hanging on by the thinnest of threads. This could be the final straw.
And now a former Biden ally hit Joe with devastating news that could end his 2024 run.
Comedian Bill Maher says President Biden has “no chance” of being the Democratic nominee, after repeatedly warning that he can’t win against former President Donald Trump.
“It does not have to be a disaster. There is still time,” the Real Time host said on The Rubin Report in an episode released on Tuesday.
“It almost doesn’t matter who it is. Just someone new. The less we know about them the better.”
“Just get everybody who is not 100 years old, got a ‘D’ by their name, and is sort of a centrist and you can win this election. Just give us that choice,” he urged Democrats.
Despite Biden’s vehement refusal to withdraw from the contest, Maher projected that he had “no chance” of being the nominee.
“Pressure will keep building,” he said. “I would put money on it that he’s just not going to be the candidate.”
Biden’s dismal debate performance last month raised questions about his fitness for government and heightened Democrats’ anxieties about his ability to overcome his Republican adversary.
Biden has frequently emphasized that he intends to remain in the campaign.
“14 million people voted for me to be the nominee of the Democratic Party, okay?” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt in an interview at the White House on Monday.
“I listen to them.”
On Rubin’s podcast, Maher explained that while he believes Biden is too old to run for president, he rejects charges that he is senile.
“He’s terrible in public. He’s terrible when you put him under pressure with his stuttering and his age, yes,” he told Rubin, but Biden has “not lost his marbles.”
According to Maher, the 81-year-old president cannot “run a marathon,” but he can “sit in a chair and still think clearly.”
“To think not is to just, again, be pointlessly, purposefully, stupidly extreme about it,” he told Rubin, who disagreed.
“You just hate that side so you can’t come to the actual true place where this is.”
Maher was also confident in Biden’s ability to lead America through a crisis.
“Yes, trust me, he has his marbles, he could make the right decision. He’s not crazy, he just shouldn’t be president. It’s a day-to-day job,” he explained.
“But do I fear that in a crisis, crazy, out-of-his-mind is there? No,” he said of Trump.
The podcast appears to have been taped before the shooting at a Trump campaign rally on Saturday.
The shooter k*lled rallygoer Corey Comperatore, gravely injured David Dutch and James Copenhaver, and wounded the former president in the ear during the assassination attempt.
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