{"id":9789,"date":"2024-09-02T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/george-clooney-praises-selfless-joe-biden-for-quitting-race\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:55:17","slug":"george-clooney-praises-selfless-joe-biden-for-quitting-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/george-clooney-praises-selfless-joe-biden-for-quitting-race\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney praises &#8216;selfless&#8217; Joe Biden for quitting race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">George Clooney has praised Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to quit the presidential race as the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The actor, who is one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s leading fundraisers, had previously urged Mr Biden not to seek re-election in an opinion piece in the New York Times.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He said the president was a shadow of his former self, writing &#8220;we are not going to win in November with this president.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Nearly two weeks later, Mr Biden stood aside.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Clooney was answering questions from reporters at the Venice Film Festival, where he was promoting his latest film.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c8xlw5egg52o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney has praised Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to quit the presidential race as the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington. The actor, who is one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s leading fundraisers, had previously urged Mr Biden not to seek re-election in an opinion piece in the New York Times. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9791,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}