Bill Maher Wants Biden To Replace Kamala Harris With Nikki Haley: 'That's My Dream'
Bill Maher has a suggestion for President Joe Biden that he believes would help him "definitely win" the 2024 presidential election.
Speaking during a panel conversation on his show "Real Time," the TV personality and political commentator said he believes Biden should consider replacing Vice President Kamala Harris with former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who recently dropped out of the Republican presidential race.
While he admitted that this was unlikely to happen, Maher described the potential "unity ticket" as his "dream."
"I know it's crazy to think that she could run with Biden, but that's my dream, a unity ticket. And then he would, I think, definitely win," Maher said, as seen in a video shared by AmericaNewz.
Maher acknowledged that Haley has made some controversial comments, including that the U.S. has "never been a racist country."
Journalist Tara Palmeri pushed back against Maher's idea, saying that taking the first female, first Black, and first Asian-American U.S. vice president off the ticket "would literally destroy the Democratic base."
But Maher defended his suggestion, citing Haley's status as a woman of color.
"She's a woman of color," Maher said of Haley.
"But Black women are the core of the Democratic party," Palmeri replied.
Maher first brought up the idea of replacing Harris in October 2022, claiming she was "not very popular."
"What I could see is replacing the vice president," Maher said at the time. "Because she's just not very popular anywhere. And it didn't seem to work out. And, I don't know, that's been done before on a ticket."
Maher also recently suggested on his show that Biden appointing Utah Sen. Mitt Romney as his secretary of state could also be a good way of bridging the two parties.
"Something to reach across so that we don't live in this world where everybody sees the other side as an existential threat," the media personality explained.
According to a Statista-YouGov poll released last month, 41% of American adults said they had either a very favorable or a somewhat favorable opinion of the current vice president.
However, 50% of respondents said they had a very unfavorable or somewhat unfavorable opinion of Harris.
On Wednesday, Haley announced that she was suspending her presidential campaign after just winning one primary against Donald Trump on Super Tuesday.
While she congratulated Trump, she did not endorse the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee and instead challenged him to "earn" the support of voters who backed her.
"I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee, but on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, 'Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind,'" Haley said, according to CNN.
The former governor added, "It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the vote -- those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. And I hope he does that," she said.
Shortly after Haley announced her decision, Trump took another jab at her, calling her supporters "radical left Democrats" and claiming her Vermont win was less than legitimate.
"I hope she stays in the 'race' and fights it out until the end!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
