Culture Society, Identity and Belonging
Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker and a long-time Biden ally, said yesterday that he had a “decision” to make about his future – apparently ignoring Biden’s repeated insistence that he is staying in the 2024 presidential race – as she urged Democrats to keep any concerns private until after this week’s Nato summit. It only stoked speculation that he would step aside after the meeting. Hollywood star George Clooney, who has hosted multiple Democratic fundraisers, was more forthright. “We are not going to win in November with this president,” he wrote in a NYT opinion piece. Clooney said Biden was “not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010” at a recent fundraiser in California. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate … [and] our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw.” Trump is now leading Biden by 2.2 percentage points, after Biden gained a tiny lead ahead of the debate last month. The president is due to hold a post-Nato press conference tonight. It could be a key test – or a swansong.
