Talk show host Bill Maher shared his opinion Friday that President Joe Biden should remain a one-term president and drop out of the 2024 race during the Democratic National Convention.
Maher made reference to his nickname for the president, “Ruth Bader Biden,” during his Friday episode of Real Talk with Bill Maher. He has used the nickname to imply Biden won’t leave office in a manner similar to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in office in 2020 rather than resigning under a Democratic president and was then replaced by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee.
“I said he was going to be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of presidential politics,” Maher said of Biden. “He stayed too long at the fair.”
The talk show host brought attention to Biden’s campaign promises ahead of the 2020 election, when he promised to be a “bridge” for the Democratic Party. Maher joked that amid turning down a Super Bowl interview for the second year in a row and special counsel Robert Hur’s report on his age and memory, the Biden bridge appears to be “collapsing.”
“‘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,” Maher said. “We’ve had open conventions many times. … They make it up as they go along anyway. It’s politics.”
Biden is the oldest sitting president at 81. If he wins, he will be 86 at the end of his second term. So far, Biden has swept every Democratic primary of the 2024 election cycle.
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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is fracturing in part as a result of Biden’s reelection campaign. The incumbent president has Democratic challengers in Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) and YouTube news anchor Cenk Uygur, though Biden most recently won Nevada with 89.4%.
Democrat Marianne Williamson, an author, suspended her campaign on Wednesday, Feb. 7, after losing to both Biden and the “none of these candidates” option.
