(IntegrityTimes.com) – Hollywood actor and major Democratic fundraiser George Clooney has expressed his lack of faith in President Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate in the 2024 election, having helped the campaign raise $30 million at a fundraising event last month. Pressure has built on the 81-year-old president as leading Democrats and major donors are asking Biden to step down from the campaign. Calls for the president to step out of the race have increased following his disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump on June 27.
Though Biden gave an impassioned speech at the NATO Summit, which was presented as a make-it-or-break-it moment for his 2024 campaign by commentators, his performance at the summit focused on the war in Ukraine did little to reassure increasingly worried Democrats. Biden prompted further ridicule regarding his mental fitness when he confused Vice President Kamala Harris with Trump. He also referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” at a news conference.
Clooney stated that loved Biden as a senator, vice president and president. He stressed that he believes in the president’s morals and character, but accepted that Biden cannot fight the battle against time. Following Clooney’s statement, Michael Douglas also shared his concerns about how capable Biden would be as a president in a year’s time, despite stressing that he felt the president had done an “incredible job”. Douglas, who held a fundraiser for Biden in April, previously claimed that the president was “sharp as a tack” as fears about his mental acuity increased.
Clooney admitted that, as “devastating” as it was to say, the Biden he spoke to at the fundraiser in June had changed since his time as vice president and since he was elected in 2020. He added in the op-ed that the president was the same at the fundraiser as he was during the lackluster debate with Trump.
Though Clooney accepted that Biden could have been suffering from a cold or exhaustion during the debate as his campaign claimed, he stressed that senior Democrats need to stop lying to voters about Biden’s mental state. He emphasized how worried Democratic voters were about the prospect of another Trump administration, and stated that if Biden refuses to back down from his campaign the Democrats will lose not only the presidential election but control of the Senate as well.
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