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Ashley Judd asks Biden to take it back
July 12, 2024, 11:38 pm
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After the Hollywood star Clooney, fellow actress Ashley Judd is calling for Biden to withdraw from the nomination. The 56-year-old writes that he voluntarily left with dignity. Meanwhile, the US president’s campaign is posting record revenues.
American actress Ashley Judd has joined the demands of her colleague George Clooney and called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. In an opinion piece published in USA Today, Judd wrote that the 81-year-old should retire “with dignity and grace” and make way for a “talented and formidable candidate.”
As a staunch democrat, it is not easy for her to make this claim. She knows what Biden has done for the country. But voters deserve a real alternative to Donald Trump. The Republican, who wants to return to the White House after the US election in November, threatens to “use the power of the presidency with unprecedented, unpredictable cruelty and injustice”, the 56-year-old warned.
After a televised fight against Trump, Biden is fighting on all fronts to save his presidential candidacy. Reflecting on the debate, Judd described Biden as a “deeply respectable man” who “unbridledly spouted intolerable lies”.
On Wednesday, co-star Clooney Biden also called on Biden to drop out of the race in a New York Times op-ed. Biden is too old, the 63-year-old wrote, at a fundraiser in Hollywood three weeks ago. The text received much attention.
Biden team: Blast in donations after NATO summit
Despite calls to withdraw, many Democrats continue to financially support the US president’s election campaign, according to Biden’s team. Campaign donations exploded during Biden’s press conference at the end of the NATO summit in Washington, said Michael Tyler, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign team, during the flight from Detroit.
“We received almost 40,000 donations last night alone,” Tyler said. They were received seven times faster than the average. This shows that support for Biden is still high. In battleground states, interviews and Thursday’s press conference, Biden and his team tried to convince nervous members of Congress and donors that the debate defeat was a “bad night” for Biden.
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