The Biden campaign fired back at actor George Clooney on Wednesday after Clooney called for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, suggesting that the 81-year-old president has better stamina than Clooney.
Clooney wrote in a New York Times op-ed that he held “the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever” last month for Biden. He said the Biden who showed up to the event “was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Biden’s team fired back: “The President stayed for over 3 hours, while Clooney took a photo quickly and left.”
Clooney’s op-ed comes as Democrats are panicking over whether Biden should remain in the presidential race after his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
“Our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” Clooney wrote of the debate. “We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted…