Actor George Clooney, who just weeks ago
hosted a fundraiser for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, called for the president to exit the 2024 race in
a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday.
"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. "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."
Clooney's comments go against Biden's claims that the debate was just one "bad night" or a "bad episode,"
as he told ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos in Biden's first post-debate television interview. Also, the stinging language lands Clooney among the
growing chorus of Democrats -- from elected officials to high-profile donors -- asking the president to allow another, younger nominee to lead the Democratic Party's ticket.
abcnews.go.com
