George Clooney says Biden must exit US presidential race. As one of the Democratic Party’s leading fundraisers, on Wednesday made a plea for US President Joe Biden to end his faltering reelection campaign.
Clooney says Biden must exit US presidential race
He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020
George Clooney
Clooney — a member of a group of Hollywood elite that provides key support to the Democrats and joined a growing list of public figures calling for Biden, 81, to step aside after his debate performance against Donald Trump last month.
“I love Joe Biden,” Clooney wrote in the New York Times. “I consider him a friend, and I believe in him … But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time.”
George Clooney
A self-described “lifelong Democrat”, Clooney last month co-hosted a star-studded fundraiser with Biden in Los Angeles, which also featured former president Barack Obama.
The Biden campaign said that the event brought in a record $28 million.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote, referencing a famous hot-mic clip from Biden’s vice presidency.
“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney said — a direct challenge to Biden’s claim that his poor debate showing was a one-off.
Several lawmakers already openly calling for Biden to step aside and more expressing worries, “the dam has broken,” as an emotional Clooney says Biden must exit US presidential race, and urging more rebels to come forward.
The Oscar-winner brushed aside worries that Biden’s exit would create chaos four months before an election in which the Democrats hope to keep Trump from power, and did not endorse a replacement candidate.