George Clooney is praising Joe Biden for dropping out of the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump. The Oscar-winning actor made headlines on July 10 for publishing an op-ed in The New York Times in which he urged Biden to end his campaign following his disastrous performance in the first 2024 presidential debate. Now, Clooney is saying Biden has saved democracy by dropping out out of the race.
“President Biden has shown what true leadership is,” Clooney said in a statement to CNN. “He’s saving democracy once again. We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest.
” Clooney’s original op-ed urging Biden to drop out was notable as it was published only a few weeks after the actor co-hosted a huge Hollywood fundraiser for Biden that raised a record $28 million. “I love Joe Biden. As a senator.
As a vice president and as president,” Clooney wrote at the time. “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 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 noted that Democrats had been “all so terrified by the prospect .