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Last night on HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host urged Democrats to consider dropping President Joe Biden as the party’s 2024 presidential candidate at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Maher added that it’s likely the only way they can beat former President Donald Trump and maintain control of the White House.
This week, Biden held a press conference in response to Trump-appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur’s findings from his criminal investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. His report concluded that Biden will not be charged even though he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials.”
Hur spent a large portion of the document arguing that one of the main reasons charges should not be brought was that Biden is showing strong signs of cognitive decline.
The report concluded that any potential jury would view Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden lashed out at reporters at the event who asked about voters’ concerns about his age and the White House has called the report a political stunt.
Maher touched on the topic saying, “I said he was going to be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of presidential politics… He stayed too long at the fair.”
“Bubbling up this week… he won’t do the Super Bowl interview, which is not a hard one, mixing up all the world leaders and then this report that came out,” he said during his opening monologue (which you can watch above), later adding: “Republicans are brilliant at using this. This is a little bit like the Comey letter, a little like the Starr report.”
Maher mentioned that Biden has previously referred to himself as a transitional leader for Democrats to usher in the next generation of leaders for the party.
“He said ‘I see myself as a bridge’ that’s collapsing,” said Maher. “‘I see myself as a bridge.’ I read that as one term. And I guess the question now is, is it too late? And I don’t think it is because I still think you can do it at the convention. People have said to me, ‘Oh, that’s ridiculous. They’ll look like-‘ They’ll look like nothing. Nobody gives a f— what they do at the convention.”
“You can switch him out at the convention… If a guy says ‘I can’t run,’ then you have to do it,” Maher continued. “Then it has to be somebody else. Then it’s an open convention. We’ve had open conventions many times… They make it up as they go along anyway. It’s politics.”
You can watch the clip below and catch new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher on Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on HBO & streaming on Max.
