{"id":2424414,"date":"2025-04-16T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-clooney-dropping-support-from-biden-was-his-civic-duty-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:40:24","slug":"george-clooney-dropping-support-from-biden-was-his-civic-duty-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-clooney-dropping-support-from-biden-was-his-civic-duty-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney dropping support from Biden was his \u2018civic duty\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-clooney-dropping-support-from-biden-was-his-civic-duty-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2424414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>George Clooney discussed his recent call for President joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, which he framed as an act of &#8220;civic duty.&#8221; In an interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, Clooney expressed that, as a Democrat from Kentucky, he felt compelled to speak out when he saw misinformation from his political allies. He highlighted concerns about Biden&#8217;s performance, especially following a poor debate, and in an op-ed for the new York Times, he argued for the necessity of a new candidate to lead the party. clooney&#8217;s stance received mixed reactions, with some still upset by his remarks. Ultimately, Biden endorsed than-Vice President kamala Harris after withdrawing from the race, though she would later lose the general election to Donald Trump. Clooney&#8217;s criticism resonates with a broader tension within the Democratic Party regarding the need for fresh leadership.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">George Clooney dropping support from Biden was his &lsquo;civic duty&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1700359\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/george-clooney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">George Clooney<\/a> said that his decision calling for then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> to drop out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 presidential campaign<\/a> was based on his sense of &ldquo;civic duty.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it was brave,&rdquo; Clooney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/15\/entertainment\/video\/the-lead-george-clooney-president-joe-biden-oped-2024-elections-jake-tapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> CNN&rsquo;s Jake Tapper in a preview of his <em>The Lead<\/em> interview airing Wednesday. &ldquo;It was a civic duty. Because I found that people on my side of the street &mdash; and I&rsquo;m a Democrat from Kentucky so I get it &mdash; when I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought it was time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3380786\/jon-stewart-mocks-trump-cabinet-meeting\/\">Jon Stewart mocks &#8216;weird&#8217; Trump Cabinet meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3380308\/taylor-lorenz-claims-did-not-call-luigi-mangione-morally-good\/\">Taylor Lorenz claims she did not call Luigi Mangione &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-lorenz-claims-she-did-not-call-luigi-mangione-morally-good-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Taylor Lorenz claims she did not call Luigi Mangione \u2018morally good\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">morally good&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3379931\/will-smith-fame-materialism-only-god-left\/\">Will Smith on reaching the end of fame and materialism: &lsquo;Only God is left&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Are people still mad at you for that?&rdquo; Tapper asked the Hollywood star.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some people, sure,&rdquo; Clooney replied.<\/p>\n<p>Following Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-features\/3068833\/bidens-post-debate-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">poor debate performance<\/a><\/a> on June 27, many Democrats urged their party members not to overreact. There were others, however, who pleaded with the incumbent president to step aside and let a new, younger face carry the party forward. Clooney was one of them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/10\/opinion\/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">writing a July 10 op-ed <\/a>in the <em>New York Times <\/em>titled &ldquo;I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-to-invoke-the-25th-amendment\/\" title=\"Time to invoke the 25th Amendment\">51 million people didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t see what we just saw,&rdquo; Clooney wrote at the time. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we&rsquo;ve opted to ignore every warning sign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clooney is one of Hollywood&rsquo;s most famous Democratic supporters and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3076281\/george-clooney-calls-for-biden-to-step-aside-after-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">hosted a fundraiser<\/a> for Biden weeks before the debate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3224184\/harris-faces-political-wilderness-historic-loss-party-tatters\/\"><strong>HARRIS FACES POLITICAL WILDERNESS AFTER HISTORIC LOSS LEAVES HER PARTY &lsquo;IN TATTERS&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fewer than two weeks after Clooney&rsquo;s op-ed was published, Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21, endorsing his then<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-video-links-biden-to-ukrainian-corruption-burisma-indictment-reveals-ex-president-yanukovich-illegally-obtained-7-4-billion-laundered-thru-fund-close-to-us-democratic-party\/\" title=\"New Video Links Biden to Ukrainian Corruption \u2013 Burisma Indictment Reveals Ex-President Yanukovich Illegally Obtained .4 Billion Laundered Thru Fund \u201cClose to US ...\u201d\">-vice president<\/a>, Kamala Harris, to take his place. She would go on to win the Democratic nomination but lose the general election to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats, many of whom had much more sway in Washington, D.C., than Clooney, such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), were seen as having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3114804\/pelosi-punts-responsibility-role-biden-ouster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">privately pushed<\/a> Biden to drop out of the race. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1700359\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1700359\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney said urging Biden to exit the 2024 race was his &#8220;civic duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2424415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/George-Clooney.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3620,53595,34524,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2424414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden","tag-civic-duty","tag-george-clooney","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/George-Clooney.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424418,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424414\/revisions\/2424418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}