George Clooney is not just a popular actor. He is one of the Democrats’ biggest donors – giving millions to their campaigns – and until recently a staunch supporter of Joe Biden.
In that capacity, in an op-ed in the New York Times (under the headline “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Candidate”), Clooney essentially calls on the president to withdraw from the race for the November election. He is asking him to make way for a candidate who has a better chance of beating Donald Trump.
“We know what we saw”
“It pains me to say this, but the Joe Biden I met with three weeks ago at a fundraiser was not the Joe “Big F….. Deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all saw at the debate,” Clooney writes.
He then points out that Biden may well be tired or have a cold, but “our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw.” He adds that the interview Biden gave a few days ago to ease the concerns that the debate raised, in the end, only reinforced this image.
“We will not win with this November”
“Is it fair to point these things out? It has to be,” Clooney notes, explaining, “Because we’re not going to win in November with this president.”
He notes that Democrats often criticize how “the Republican Party has ceded all power…to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency.” And yet “most of our members of Congress are choosing to wait and see if the dam breaks, when the dam has already broken.”
It is worth noting that Clooney’s intervention comes at a time when Joe Biden is trying to convince the NATO Summit that he still has the necessary physical and mental stamina. to the “planetary” position. It coincides with Nancy Pelosi’s call, “let him think again”.
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