George Clooney calls on Joe Biden to STEP DOWN from the 2024 presidential race and rips his brutal debate performance

George Clooney turned retired connected President Joe Biden, calling connected him to exit nan statesmanlike race.

'Joe Biden is simply a hero; he saved populist successful 2020. We request him to do it again successful 2024,' nan character wrote successful an op-ed for nan New York Times. 

Clooney, who hosted a star-studded fundraiser for Biden successful Los Angeles connected June 16, said nan personification he saw location was nan campaigner nan world saw astatine past week's statesmanlike debate.

'I emotion Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and arsenic president. I see him a friend, and I judge successful him. Believe successful his character. Believe successful his morals. In nan past 4 years, he’s won galore of nan battles he’s faced,' Clooney wrote.

'But nan 1 conflict he cannot triumph is nan conflict against time. None of america can. It’s devastating to opportunity it, but nan Joe Biden I was pinch 3 weeks agone astatine nan fund-raiser was not nan Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t moreover nan Joe Biden of 2020. He was nan aforesaid man we each witnessed astatine nan debate,' he said. 

Clooney, on pinch character Julia Roberts and erstwhile President Barack Obama, helped raise $30 cardinal for Biden's run that night.

But nan fundraiser was shadowed pinch questions aft a video appeared to show Obama having to guideline Biden disconnected stage.