George Clooney is calling on President Biden to step down and support a new nominee for the 2024 election. He is not alone.
Although he is one of many celebrities who have endorsed President Biden in the past and even recently, he also seemed uneasy after the first presidential debate of the season.
Biden’s re-election in 2024 will be a complicated decision for him and the United States. This is also a crucial one. Especially as the terrifying specter of disgraced former President Donald Trump spreads across the country.
Just last month, Clooney co-hosted a Biden fundraiser. Now he’s asking the “heroic” president to quit.
George Clooney thinks President Joe Biden should make way for new nominee
George Clooney writes about President Biden and the 2024 election in a guest column on Wednesday, July 10 New York Times.
“I love Joe Biden,” Clooney began. “As a senator. As vice president and as president. I considered him a friend and I believed in him.
He then elaborated: “Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. He’s won a lot of the battles he’s faced over the past four years.
“But the one battle he can’t win is the battle against time,” George Clooney lamented pessimistically. “None of us can do it.”
“It’s frustrating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was at the fundraiser with three weeks ago is not the Joe Biden of 2010. He’s not even the Joe Biden of 2020,” Clooney said. The same people we witnessed in the debate.
The first presidential debate in 2024 between Biden and his opponent did not go well. While the opposition has made clear in recent years that the debate is no more important to them than an individual act or a series of crimes, Democrats appear to lack the will to match that energy. Instead, left-wing pundits are panicking, running around like headless chickens. Clooney seemed to feel similarly.
It wasn’t just Biden’s debate performance, Clooney writes
his Now The column also noted that he didn’t find Biden’s answer to George Stephanopoulos to fully explain why he got stuck in the debate.
Ironically, a day earlier, Stephanopoulos was approached by a stranger in New York City to ask his opinion on President Joe Biden’s fitness for public office.
“I don’t think he’s going to be in office for another four years,” the ABC News anchor responded candidly. ’s first television interview.
“Is he tired? Yes. Cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney claimed in his article.
“We were all so frightened by the prospect of Trump being re-elected that we chose to ignore every warning sign,” Clooney said. “The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw a week ago. ”
George Clooney later claimed, without evidence, “As Democrats, every time we see our esteemed president step off Air Force One, or walk back to the microphone to answer an impromptu question, we collectively hold our breath or lower our heads. volume.
He emphasized his concerns that this is not just an Oval Office issue. This is about taking back the House and keeping the Senate — crucial to holding the line.
And then there are state legislative and gubernatorial races, all of which can fall prey to unaccountable, easily swayed voters who let clueless experts or their own general lack of enthusiasm sway their votes — or prevent them from voting at all. That’s not exactly how Clooney describes it, but still.
Other A-list actors of a certain age share the same concerns
Clooney has repeatedly stressed that his issue with Biden is age — “nothing more.” Of course, he worries that the United States won’t win in November with Biden at the helm.
In the current news cycle, that may be true. The fact that corporate media gets tired of a topic and moves on to something else is both a blessing and a curse.
Ultimately, Clooney may be right, or he may be wrong. Regardless of a second Biden term or a new nominee, victory or crushing defeat, there will be no end to hindsight arguments and “told you so” arguments. Arguments are always inevitable and self-defeating.
Also on Wednesday, Michael Douglas appears as a guest on landscape. Although he was not present for this (then very new) column, he did weigh in on George Clooney’s arguments.
“This is so tough. I love this guy so much. Fifty years of public service, a wonderful man, and this happens to be one of the most critical of these elections,” Douglas said.
He added: “I’m not necessarily worried about today or tomorrow, but I’m worried about a year from now. I’m worried.
