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Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has this week publicly casted doubts on President Joe Biden’s ability to win a second election against Donald Trump in November.
The uncertainty within the Democrats about their current candidate for the 2024 race has only magnified since last week’s nightmare presidential debate, where Biden appeared to show signs of clear cognitive decline.
This comes as high profile Hollywood star and lifelong Democrat, George Clooney, joins growing calls from the party’s most loyal supporters for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race.
Clooney has this week penned a New York Times opinion piece, in which he declares his love for Biden, while also declaring his fears that the party would lose the presidential race as well as any control in Congress with him as the nominee.
“This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private,” wrote Clooney. He’s hosted several high-dollar Hollywood fundraisers, including for Biden last month.
However, it seems both Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden are adamant that the 81-year-old has what it takes to serve as the leader of the free world until his late 80s.
For whatever reason, it appears that the decision to replace Joe Biden is one that he will need to make – rather than all of the people in both his inner-circle and American society who will be greatly affected if he doesn’t step down.
And he ain’t stepping down.
The US media and Biden’s allies are only adding the complexities of this stand-off, as they pretend that this kind of awkward confrontation between concerned community members and a stubborn geriatric isn’t something that a vast number of everyday people have experience with.
For Betoota Grove woman, Meg Sizemore (38) the current crisis face by the US Democrats is one that she can very much relate to.
“He can’t be driving” says Meg, in reference to her 84-year-old grandfather, who is in the midst of a Biden-esque descent into cognitive decline and now refusing to give up his drivers licence”
“He knows he can’t be driving. He just doesn’t want to admit it, and is arguing we’ll have to take those car keys from his cold dead hands!”
“Anything could happen with him on the roads. I’m just waiting for the phone call from a TV reporter telling me he’s rammed his car halfway through the front facade of some dress shop on the main street and he’ll be up top on the nightly news”
“Anything could happen with this stubborn old codger behind the wheel”
