{"id":168188,"date":"2025-11-30T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:28:07","slug":"clooney-pressuring-biden-to-drop-out-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168188\/","title":{"rendered":"Clooney: Pressuring Biden to drop out was a \u201cmistake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Clooney<\/a> was one of the loudest voices calling for former President Joe Biden<\/a> to drop out of the 2024 election. In a recent interview with The Times of London<\/a>, the actor said that pushing Biden out of the race was a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the outlet in a joint interview with Adam Sandler<\/a>, the \u201cJay Kelly\u201d star<\/a> said former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> was left with too steep a hill to climb.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was given a very tough task,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Following Harris\u2019 loss, the Democrats are left with no easy answers for their next presidential candidate. The prominent Democratic Party booster balked at predicting the field for 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, the next election is three years away, and if you look at the election cycles, two years from when Bill Clinton<\/a> won, we thought Paul Tsongas was going to be the nominee,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thought it would be Hillary when Barack Obama<\/a> won, so we\u2019re far away from having to home in on who could run for the Democratic Party<\/a> \u2014 we\u2019ll see, we\u2019ll wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor told the Times that partisan politics in the United States obscured common desires.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, it\u2019s an interesting time in my country, but most people, right and left, want the same. They want a job with dignity, health for themselves and their family,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so whoever runs has to be able to articulate the common ground, because division is getting us nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clooney led the charge to end Biden\u2019s presidential campaign following a concerning performance in a head-to-head debate with Donald Trump. In an op-ed that ran in the New York Times, Clooney said his personal interactions with Biden made him wonder about the then-president\u2019s mental acuity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not\u2026the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,\u201d Clooney wrote.<\/p>\n

Following Biden\u2019s decision to end his campaign, Clooney praised Biden<\/a> for having the humility to put the country before his pride. He called the move \u201cthe most selfless thing anybody\u2019s done since George Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the machinations that got us there, none of that\u2019s gonna be remembered, and it shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Clooney said at the time. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s very hard to let go of power. We know that. We\u2019ve seen it all around the world. And for someone to say, \u2018I think there\u2019s a better way forward,\u2019 all the credit goes to him, and that\u2019s really the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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