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Hollywood star
George Clooney
— one of the first high-profile
Democratic activists
to urge
Joe Biden
not to seek reelection — on Tuesday announced his backing for
Kamala Harris
, while hailing Biden’s exit.
“President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He’s
saving democracy
once again. We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest,” Clooney said in a statement to CNN.
A major fundraiser for
Democratic candidates
and longtime Biden booster, Clooney broke ranks two weeks ago by openly calling on the 81-year-old president to give way to a younger candidate so that the party would have a better chance of beating
Donald Trump
in November.
“I love Joe Biden,” Clooney wrote in The New York Times, shocking many. “I consider him a friend, and I believe in him… But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time.”
With Biden at the top of the ticket, the Oscar-winner said, Democrats “are not going to win in November,” will lose control of the Senate, and won’t gain a majority in the House of Representatives.
After days of mounting pressure, Biden on Sunday abruptly announced he was leaving the race and endorsed his vice president. Harris has rapidly garnered overwhelming support from party leaders and raked in a huge quantity of donations from voters.
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