{"id":139100,"date":"2025-04-16T23:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/george-clooney-singles-out-wes-moore-as-top-democratic-prospect\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:48:45","slug":"george-clooney-singles-out-wes-moore-as-top-democratic-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/george-clooney-singles-out-wes-moore-as-top-democratic-prospect\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Singles Out Wes Moore As Top Democratic Prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-clooney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-clooney\" data-tag=\"george-clooney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Clooney<\/a> singled out <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wes-moore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wes-moore\" data-tag=\"wes-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wes Moore<\/a> as an rising Democratic chief who&#8217;s \u201clevitating\u201d above others, saying that the Maryland governor may \u201cbe someone we could all join in behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cHe is the guy that has handled this tragedy in Baltimore beautifully,\u201d Clooney instructed CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. \u201cHe had two tours of duty in Afghanistan, active duty. He speaks sort of beautifully. He\u2019s smart. He ran a hedge fund. He ran the Robin Hood Foundation. He\u2019s a proper leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn an interview tied to his Broadway play \u201cGood Night, And Good Luck,\u201d primarily based on his 2005 movie, Clooney additionally had reward for Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTapper additionally requested Clooney about his New York Times op ed in July, when he known as for President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-biden\" data-tag=\"joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> to drop out of the 2024 race. Clooney cited Biden\u2019s age and deterioration when he joined him for a Los Angeles fundraiser the earlier month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt was a civic duty\u2026 I\u2019m a Democrat, Democrat in Kentucky so I get it, [but] when i saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was time to,\u201d Clooney mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe mentioned that persons are nonetheless offended at him for the op ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYou can\u2019t demand freedom of speech and then say, \u2018But don\u2019t say bad things about me, right? \u2026 If you believe it, take a stand, stand for it, and then deal with the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClooney additionally mentioned that he thought it could have been higher had there been a \u201cmini-primary\u201d after Biden in the end dropped out. He mentioned that Kamala Harris was weighed down by the unpopularity of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI believe we&#8217;ve got some actually good governors, and I might have preferred to have seen a \u2026 fast major. I believe we might have sustained it. [Harris} may have come out on top, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClooney said that Democrats \u201chave to find somebody rather soon\u201d as a key leadership voice, citing the way that Republicans are \u201crunning through government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo it\u2019s our job now to put together a proper team to stand up because we are right now polling very poorly,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] George Clooney singled out Wes Moore as an rising Democratic chief who&#8217;s \u201clevitating\u201d above others, saying that the Maryland governor may \u201cbe someone we could all join in behind.\u201d \u201cHe is the guy that has handled this tragedy in Baltimore beautifully,\u201d Clooney instructed CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. \u201cHe had two tours of duty in Afghanistan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9242,4400,4303,94,9244,9243,1536,8909],"class_list":{"0":"post-139100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-clooney","9":"tag-democratic","10":"tag-george","11":"tag-moore","12":"tag-prospect","13":"tag-singles","14":"tag-top","15":"tag-wes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}