Actor George Clooney called for Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election less than a month after helping him raise $30 million at a Hollywood gala.
After praising Biden as a “friend” who’s “won many battles,” the Ocean’s Eleven actor on Wednesday said Democrats “are not going to win in November” if Biden remains the party’s nominee.
“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced,” Clooney wrote in a New York Times column.
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George Clooney writes: “This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president.” https://t.co/BOkwvhjNsI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 10, 2024
“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. 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.”
The Batman & Robin actor then urged Democrats to stop gaslighting the American people about Biden’s mental acuity and face the reality that everyone witnessed at the debate.
Joe Biden loses the support of George Clooney. Fox News’ Peter Doocy reads from a New York Times op-ed penned by the actor:
“I love Joe Biden as a senator, a vice president, and as a president…but he goes onto say he thinks they need a new presidential nominee.”
Just a few… pic.twitter.com/9YIpqTc3p7
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 10, 2024
“Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney wrote.
“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. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
Clooney concluded, “Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to do it again in 2024.”
This comes just three weeks after Clooney, along with other stars like Julia Roberts and Barbara Streisand, headlined a fundraiser for Biden in Los Angeles.
This was the same event that raised eyebrows when former President Barack Obama was seen escorting a frozen Biden offstage, prompting the White House and media to claim the video clips of the incident were “cheap fakes” spread by conspiracy theorists.
Rob Reiner, another prominent Hollywood supporter of Biden, on Sunday also called for the Biden campaign to “stop fucking around” and have Biden step down, citing his disastrous debate performance.
It’s time to stop fucking around. If the Convicted Felon wins, we lose our Democracy. Joe Biden has effectively served US with honor, decency, and dignity. It’s time for Joe Biden to step down.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) July 7, 2024
How many more former Biden supporters in Hollywood will call for Biden to step down in the coming days and weeks?