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President Joe Biden continues to lose key support from colleagues, celebrities and donors.
Biden's shaky performance last month in the first presidential debate with Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump has cast doubt on his ability to seek reelection.
Despite many calling for Biden to step aside, the incumbent president remains adamant that he can run for reelection and win.
But Biden's confidence did not appear to calm some of his former ardent supporters who called on the president to step down.
Best-selling horror author Stephen King (76) posted on Twitter on Monday (July 8) that “Joe Biden has been a great President,” but “for the sake of the America he so obviously loves, the time has come to announce that I will not be running for re-election.”
When Harry Met Sally… Director Rob Reiner, 77, expressed a similar view: “If a convicted criminal wins, we lose our democracy. Joe Biden has served America with honor, decency and dignity. It is time for Joe Biden to step down,” Reiner wrote on X.
lost Co-creator and self-described “lifelong Democrat” Damon Lindelof declared, “Biden has to go. The Democratic Party needs to wake up.”
In a guest column deadlineLindelof urged people to hold off on donating to Democrats “until we see change at the top of the list.”
“When Joe leaves the mound, I'm going to stand up and applaud him because he pitched a really good game,” he said.
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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, one of the Democratic Party's largest donors, has also called on Biden to drop out of the race. “Biden needs to step aside so strong Democratic leadership can defeat Trump and keep us safe and prosperous,” Hastings said in an email. The New York Times.
Director Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11) was a bit more blunt in his argument against Biden. MSNBCMoore, 70, accused Democrats of committing “elder abuse” by pressuring Biden to continue campaigning.
“I think the issue here is there's a kind of elder abuse going on in that Democrats and their associates are pressuring him over and over again to stay, and he comes out and says, 'I'm staying,' and his family says, 'I'm staying,'” he said.
“I don't know about you guys, but even though I'm a critic of Biden, I watched the debate a week ago and it broke my heart. I wish my father had been there,” Moore added. “I'm just like, why is nobody doing anything? Why did they put him on stage like this? Who's taking care of him? Who's taking care of him now?”
Last week, Disney heiress and longtime Democratic donor Abigail Disney praised the president as a “good man” who has served the country “honorably,” but warned that Republicans would win the November election unless there was a change in leadership.
“I will cease all donations to the party unless they become the top candidate to replace Biden,” she said in a statement shared with CNBC.
scenery The hosts were among the first leading commentators to argue that Biden should drop out of the race. The day after Biden's debate, talk show hosts discussed his poor performance, with Sara Haines declaring, “It pains me a little bit to say this today, but I think if we want to beat Donald Trump in November, President Biden needs to step down and someone needs to replace him.”
