George Clooney has issued a damning call for Joe Biden to quit the US presidential race, hours after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi swerved questions about whether he should continue.
The Hollywood actor and prominent Democratic fundraiser said that the president had won many battles in his career, "but the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time".
His comments came after Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker, joined growing disquiet in the party, saying that time was "running short" for Biden, 81, to decide whether to stay in the race after his stumbling debate against Donald Trump.
The president has stated, repeatedly, that he is determined to remain as the Democratic party's candidate and beat Trump, 78, in November.
Clooney wrote in the New York Times that it was "devastating to say it", but the Joe Biden he met at a fundraising event three weeks ago was not the Biden of 2010.
The actor says he wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020," added the actor.
The fundraising event, co-hosted by Clooney in Los Angeles and also featuring Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, brought in a single-night record of roughly USD$30m for the Biden campaign.
[Source: BBC]
