Actor George Clooney, a high-profile Biden supporter and fundraiser, asks president to leave race

FILE – Director George Clooney attends a special screening of “The Boys in the Boat,” Dec. 13, 2023, in New York. Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney is adding his voice to calls for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. Clooney says in a New York Times op-ed Wednesday that he loves Biden but that the party would lose the presidential race and all control of Congress with him as the nominee. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)