George Clooney implores Biden to step aside in opinion article

The actor says he talked to Biden at LA fundraiser and concluded: We are not going to win with this president'

The Hollywood actor George Clooney, one of the Democratic party's biggest fundraisers, has called on Joe Biden to step aside to save democracy from Donald Trump.

In an opinion article in the New York Times, Clooney expressed deep affection for the US president but said that personal interaction with him at a recent fundraising event in Los Angeles - the Democratic party's most successful ever, raising more than $30m - suggested that the stumbling performance in last month's debate in Atlanta was not an aberration.