“For someone to say I think there’s a better way forward, all the credit goes to him,” says the actor, who wrote an op-ed calling on Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee.
George Clooney on Sunday commented for the first time on his op-ed calling for Joe Biden to end his presidential campaign at the Venice International Film Festival, where the actor also praised the “selfless” president.
On July 10, Clooney became one of the most prominent celebrities and Democrats to call on Biden to end his campaign when his op-ed was published in The New York Times. New York Times“We will not win in November with this president,” the actor wrote at the time, “and on top of that, we will not win the House, and we will lose the Senate. That’s not just my opinion; that’s the opinion of every senator, congressman, and governor I’ve spoken to privately.”
Clooney — who just three weeks ago hosted a fundraiser for Biden, an event that left many attendees with the impression that Biden was in decline, Rolling Stone “This is about age. Nothing more,” he added in his article.
Eleven days later, on July 21, Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Clooney later also endorsed.
While some saw Clooney's very public request for Biden to step down as a turning point, the actor, who was in Venice for the premiere of his upcoming film, Wolves With Brad Pitt, he instead credited the decision to the current president.
“The person who deserves applause is the president, who has done the most selfless thing that a president has done since George Washington,” Clooney said of Biden. diverse“What we have to remember is the selfless work of someone who is very hard to give up power — and we know that, we've seen it all over the world — and for someone to say I think there's a better way forward, all the credit goes to him. And that's really the truth … I'm very proud of where we are in the state of the world right now.”
After Clooney's article was published, it was later revealed that the actor had notified Barack Obama that he would write the New York Times piece, and that the former president had not tried to stop Clooney in the wake of the disastrous Biden-Trump debate.
