A small but growing number of influential Democratic megadonors are advising President Joe Biden against running for reelection in 2024.
This powerful group of multimillionaires and billionaires, who have been significant financial supporters of the Democratic Party, are growing worried about Biden's age and his lagging poll numbers.
On Wednesday, two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker and actor George Clooney joined their ranks.
The A-list celebrity hosted a star-studded fundraiser for the president just last month.
Deadline has more on the surprising, and very public, announcement from one of Biden's most high-profile supporters:
Clooney wrote in The New York Times, “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.
“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 is one of the most influential celebrity supporters of Democrats, and the Biden campaign used his appearance at the event to raise millions in small-dollar donations, holding a contest in which the winner could meet the actor and Julia Roberts.
In the Times op ed, Clooney also wrote that he was unpersuaded by Biden's answers to George Stephanopoulos as to why he had such a poor debate performance with Donald Trump.
Stephanopoulos was as well, as he revealed to a passerby in Manhattan on Tuesday.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.
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