Biden’s candidacy in crisis as Clooney, US senator call on him to quit
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Actor and donor George Clooney says Biden will lose the presidency, House and Senate if he doesn’t step aside.
United States President Joe Biden’s teetering re-election campaign has plunged deeper into crisis amid a fresh wave of pressure from allies concerned about his age and fitness, with actor George Clooney and several top Democrats joining calls for him to step aside.
In a withering essay published in The New York Times on Wednesday, Clooney said that he had personally witnessed the 81-year-old Democrat’s decline at a major fundraiser he co-hosted for the president last month and that he wasn’t “even the Joe Biden of 2020”.
“He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. 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’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign.”
Clooney said Biden would not beat Republican challenger Donald Trump in November and that Democrats would also lose the House of Representatives and the Senate if he stayed on the ticket.
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