FOX News host Howard Kurtz breaks down A-list actor George Clooney’s diminishing support for President Biden following his disastrous performance during the CNN debate last month.
George Clooney has bailed on Joe Biden. That’s right, the superstar actor who just helped the president raise zillions of dollars, wants him out of the race.
You may not care what an entertainer who’s not in the business of politics has to say, but his reasoning is what matters here:
“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”, Clooney wrote in a New York Times op-ed yesterday. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
This is from a supporter, a lifelong Democrat declaring his love for Biden, who’s observed the man close up.
“We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and Congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
That’s the weirdness of the political limbo we’re dwelling in. I’ve been wondering whether Biden would be pushed aside if every Democratic lawmaker could secretly vote on denying him the nomination, but we don’t have a parliamentary system, where a vote of no confidence carries the day.
Biden has made clear he’s not stepping down, no matter how many pundits and politicians demand it, and no one can force him to do it.
But what if the noise level and the pressure gets to be too great?
Nancy Pelosi was on “Morning Joe” yesterday – the same show where Biden vowed to run against the “elites” – and was asked if she wanted him to stay in the race.
