Hollywood Actor, George Clooney, one of the Democratic Party’s leading fundraisers, on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to halt his reelection campaign owing to its decline.
Clooney is one of the major Democrats supporter who joined a growing list of public figures calling for Biden, 81, to step aside after his terrible 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.”
Clooney who has time and again called himself a “lifelong Democrat,” co-hosted a star-studded fundraiser with Biden in Los Angeles only last month featuring former president Barack Obama. The Biden campaign said that the event was able to collect in a record $28 million.
Clooney took reference of the 2010 hot mic debate clip of Biden, and said that he is not that individual anymore, adding “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.
“The dam has broken” on Democratic lawmakers publicly calling for Biden to withdraw, Clooney said, asking come forward.
“Top Democrats — Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi — and senators, representatives and other candidates who face losing in November need to ask this president to voluntarily step aside.”
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.
The party should hear from contenders such as Vice President Kamala Harris, Maryland Governor Wes Moore and others, “then we could go into the Democratic convention next month and figure it out,” he wrote.
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