New York [US], July 10 (HBTV): Hollywood actor and influential Democratic financial supporter George Clooney has called for US President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign, arguing that the president is too old to run again. 

In a New York Times guest essay published on Wednesday, Clooney wrote, "The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate." 

During the previous month, Clooney co-hosted a USD 28 million fund-raiser in Hollywood for Biden, which the campaign cited as the largest ever for a Democratic candidate. Now, his public plea makes him the most high-profile figure within the party to urge President Biden to withdraw from the race, as reported by The New York Times. 

Clooney's essay came just hours after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested in a television interview that "it's up to the president to decide if he is going to run." This statement has added fuel to the ongoing discussions within the Democratic Party about Biden's viability as a candidate. 

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