HBO host Bill Maher doubled down on his calls for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race and predicted that the 81-year-old commander in chief would make the historic decision in August.
“The issue with President Biden isn’t if, it’s who,” Maher said during Friday’s airing of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “Who will replace him? Because he is not going to be the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2024, all due respect.”
Maher believes that Biden is finished because the American press and politics are run by “mean girls” with a lust to finish off a “vulnerable person” and will put an end to his re-election disaster on August 9.
“Biden is toast. The walls will keep crumbling and my pick in the office pool for when he gives it up is August 9,” Maher said.
The symbolic date marks the 50th anniversary of when Richard Nixon became the first, and only, US President to resign from office.
Nixon vacated the Oval Office in 1974 after his role in the Watergate scandal was revealed, handing the presidency over to his then-Vice President Gerald Ford.
“Yes, replacing a president as his party’s candidate this late will seem like a big deal,” Maher said. “For about three days, and then we’ll all be over it”
Maher named Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as viable candidates the Democrats could choose to replace Biden.
If she were elected, Harris would become the first female, first black woman and first Asian to serve as president — none of which impresses Maher.
“I don’t vote for who will be the first, I vote for who would win and for whatever reason, Harris has never been popular,” Maher said before ripping on Harris’ failed presidential campaign four years ago.
“You can count the number of delegates she won in the 2020 primaries on one hand, as long as that hand has no fingers.”
“In three years as vice president, she has been quieter than an electric car.”
Maher said he didn’t understand why Harris wasn’t popular as she is “intelligent and accomplished,” before slamming the vice president for her failures of the US Borders when Biden named her the “border czar.”
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The topic switched to Newsom who has been Maher’s pick to be Biden’s replacement since the comedian wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the octogenarian president to step aside.
“I don’t want to say he really wants to be the guy who steps in if the current nominee goes down, but he gets an alert on his phone every time Biden forgets a word,”
“He is forceful, is never at a loss for words or stats, never stumbles, is never intimidated,” Maher wrote in the July 1 opinion piece.
Biden has had many verbal gaffes following his disastrous performance against former President Donald Trump during the first presidential debate in June.
Biden mistakingly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” during the NATO summit in Washington DC.
Hours later at the beginning of a highly anticipated “big boy” press conference, Biden referred to Harris as “Vice President Trump.”
The gaffe caused some of his senior staff and cabinet members to react in embarrassment during Biden’s error-laden press conference.
On Friday, Biden butchered the name of a Democratic congresswoman after saying he was “OK” to remain in the race in front of a crowd of Michigan supporters.
“I promise you, I am – I’m OK,” the 81-year-old president told supporters at a Northville, Mich., restaurant before heading to a larger rally in Detroit, where he stumbled attempting to shout out Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.).
Outside of the four likely candidates to replace Biden, Maher also mentioned several Democratic governors that aren’t known by most people including Wes Moore (MD.), Andy Beshear (KY.), Josh Shapiro (PA.) Jared Polis (CO.) and JB Pritzker (IL.)
“No one knows who these people are, and that’s good. We need some new characters on this sitcom we call a country,” Maher said.
“Americans like new, and these guys, all you need to know is they are moderate, under 100 years old and they have a “D” next to their name.”
Maher shot down the rumors of Michelle Obama being Biden’s replacement, calling the former First Lady a superstar as the Democratic Party is at the airport and is just hoping to get the “last rental car.”