George Clooney (Image: EPA/Fabian Strauch) Hollywood superstar George Clooney has added his husky voice to the chorus of Democratic Party-aligned figures more or less begging US President Joe Biden to pull out of the 2024 election race. Writing in The New York Times , Clooney , a longtime campaigner and fundraiser for the Democrats, said that although he found it “devastating”, “the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser 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 went on to say that the Democrats would not win the presidential election, nor the House of Representatives, nor hold onto the Senate, with Biden on the ticket: “This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor who I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.
” Biden’s moment to go gracefully has long passed — but what would shift Trump voters? Read More Of course, celebrities deigning to influence politics is phenomenon as old as our modern concept of celebrity. Here are a few other memorable examples. Al Jolson For quite some time, it has been the Democrats who get all the big celebrities, leaving the Republicans to enjoy the vocal support of Ted Nugent and James Woods.
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