Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers has issued an impassioned call for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election, asking him to “sacrifice personal ambition for the sake of American democracy.”
In a Facebook post on Friday, Rivers wrote, “You can’t win, Joe. It’s time to go.”
“If Democrats want to keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ in November, they’re going to need somebody fresh and young. Word?”
Rivers joins a growing number of celebrities who are now calling on Biden to bow out of the 2024 race. George Clooney, Michael Stipe and Rob Reiner have all made public statements about Biden after his disastrous performance against Trump in the first presidential debate and subsequent “revelations” about his cognitive decline.
On Wednesday, Clooney wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times with the title, “I love Joe Biden. But we need a new nominee.”
“We are not going to win in November with this president,” Clooney wrote.
“On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and Congress member and governor who I’ve spoken with in private.”
At least 20 Democrats in Congress have now called for Biden to withdraw, including senior figures like Jerry Nadler.
Biden himself has remained steadfast in his insistence that he will not withdraw. A week ago, he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he would only withdraw “if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that.”
Snap polling, conducted minutes after the first debate, showed that 67% of viewers believed Trump bested the President, and multiple polls have shown that significant proportions of the American public believe Biden is now unfit for the job.