George Clooney says who should replace Joe Biden as Democratic nominee for US President

He has also endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris — just two weeks after calling on the president to drop out of the election in a scathing newspaper article., the New York Post reports.

“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 told CNN in a statement on Tuesday.

Clooney’s opinion peace in the New York Times came after Mr Biden’s catastrophic debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals,” Clooney wrote.

“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time.

“None of us can.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” he added.“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

The staunch Democrat also called out party leaders on Capitol Hill, who Clooney said “need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw” at the CNN debate June 27.

“We are not going to win in November with this president,” the actor bluntly said.

Clooney’s call for the President to bow out of the race was followed by reports that Democrat heavyweights, such as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, were putting pressure on him to stop his campaign.

After weeks of pressure, Mr Biden, 81, announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be his successor.

It was the first time an incumbent president has declined to run for re-election since Lyndon Johnson dropped out of the presidential race in 1968.

This story first appeared in the New York Post and is reproduced with permission.