Clooney, a lifelong Democrat and longtime fundraiser, joins a chorus of others calling for the president to step aside after his shaky debate performance last month.
Just weeks ago, actor George Clooney headlined a record-breaking fundraiser for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Today, he's calling for the nation's leader to exit the presidential race.
"In the last four years, he's won many of the battles he's faced. But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time," Clooney wrote."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. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
But Clooney is now just one of a chorus of big-name voices — including author Stephen King, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, director Rob Reiner and Abigail Disney — who aren't convinced the Democrat can beat the Republican choice. At least eight members of Congress have agreed, and Clooney says even more are holding their tongue."We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won't win the House, and we're going to lose the Senate," he wrote.
"Would it be messy? Yes. Democracy is messy. But would it enliven our party and wake up voters who, long before the June debate, had already checked out? It sure would," Clooney wrote.
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