George Clooney is calling for President Biden to step aside in favor of a new nominee for the 2024 election. And he’s not alone.
Despite being one of many famous faces support President Biden In the past — and until very recently — he also appeared to get nervous after the first presidential debate of the season.
Biden’s 2024 re-election bid It is a complex decision, for him and for America. It is also a vital one. Particularly as the dark specter of disgraced former President Donald Trump looms across the nation.
Last month, Clooney was co-hosting fundraisers for Biden. Now, he’s calling on the “hero” POTUS to step down.
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 10 George Clooney in December 2023.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_georgeclooney_01-1024x683.jpg)
President Joe Biden should make way for new nominee, argues George Clooney
On Wednesday, July 10th, George Clooney wrote about President Biden and the 2024 election in a guest column in The New York Times.
“I love Joe Biden,” Clooney began. “As a senator. As a vice president and as a president. I consider him a friend and I believe in him.”
He then elaborated: “Trust in his character. Trust in his morals. Over the last four years, he has won many of the battles he has faced.”
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 11 President Joe Biden in July 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_joebiden_01-1024x682.jpg)
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 12 President Joe Biden in July 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_joebiden_01-1024x682.jpg)
“But the one battle he can’t win is the battle against time,” George Clooney lamented pessimistically. “None of us can.”
Clooney expressed: “It’s devastating to say this, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Big Deal Joe Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Biden’s first 2024 presidential debate with his opponent did not go well. And while the opposition party has made it clear in recent years that debates don’t matter to them any more than personal conduct or a long list of crimesThe Democratic Party seems unwilling to match that energy. Instead, left-wing pundits are in a panic, metaphorically running around like headless chickens. And it seems Clooney feels the same way.
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 13 George Clooney in December 2023.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_georgeclooney_02-1024x683.jpg)
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 14 George Clooney in December 2023.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_georgeclooney_02-1024x683.jpg)
Clooney wrote that this was more than just Biden’s debate performance
From him NYT The op-ed also noted that he did not find Biden’s responses to George Stephanopoulos adequately explaining why he struggled during the debate.
Ironically, Stephanopoulos was approached a day earlier by a stranger in New York and asked for his opinion on President Joe Biden’s fitness for office.
“I don’t think he can serve another four years,” the ABC News anchor, who had sat down with Biden a few days earlier for his first televised interview following the CNN presidential debate, responded bluntly.
“Was he tired? Yes. Had a cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney alleged in his essay.
“We are all so terrified of the prospect of a second Trump term that we chose to ignore all the warning signs,” Clooney expressed. “George Stephanopoulos’ interview only reinforced what we saw last week.”
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 15 President Joe Biden on July 9, 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_joebiden_02-1024x683.jpg)
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 16 President Joe Biden on July 9, 2024.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_joebiden_02-1024x683.jpg)
“As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, whom we respect, step off Air Force One or step back to a microphone to answer an impromptu question,” George Clooney then claimed without evidence.
He stressed his concern about how this is about more than the Oval Office. This is about taking back the House, about holding the Senate — vitally important to holding the line.
And then there are the state legislatures and the gubernatorial races, all of which can fall victim to irresponsible and easily influenced voters who would let punditry or their own general lack of enthusiasm influence their votes — or keep them from voting at all. That’s not quite how Clooney described it, but still.
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 17 George Clooney in October 2023.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_georgeclooney_03-1024x683.jpg)
![George Clooney and other stars call for Biden to step down in 2024 election 18 George Clooney in October 2023.](https://thegurumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710_georgeclooney_03-1024x683.jpg)
Other A-list actors of a certain age share their concerns
Clooney has repeatedly stressed that his problem with Biden is his age — and “nothing more” than that. And, of course, his fear that America can’t win in November with Biden in charge.
This is probably true during the current news cycle. The fact that corporate media gets bored with a topic and moves on to something else is both a blessing and a curse.
Ultimately, Clooney may be right or wrong. Come a second Biden term or a new nominee, come victory or bitter defeat, there will be no end to the retrospective arguments and “I told you so” arguments. The dispute is, as always, inevitable and self-defeating.
Also on Wednesday, Michael Douglas appeared as a guest on In cash. Although he wasn’t there to address the op-ed (too new at the time), he weighed in on George Clooney’s argument.
“This is a very difficult question. I love the guy. Fifty years of public service, a wonderful guy, and this just happens to be one of those elections that is so crucial,” Douglas said.
He added: “I don’t necessarily worry about today or tomorrow, but a year from now, I do worry. I’m worried.”