Celebs and Hollywood power players are turning on Joe Biden after George Clooney ditched him: sources
nypost.commillions of dollars and crucial A-list supportthey rely on.Tinseltown is arguably the most important and influential Democratic stronghold in the country, but The Post can reveal thefury behind the scenes as a wealth of power players and A-listers feel they have been conned into raising cash for ailing President Biden’s re-election without being told the true extent of his decline.Not only are people moving their money and putting their funding into congressional races, but the Biden campaign is struggling to find ‘surrogates’; celebrity supporters to stump for the President, according to well-placed sources.Biden has so far received no public support from big hitters such as Beyoncé,Jay-Z and Taylor Swift, who all endorsed his 2020 campaign.“You really do need the celebrity factor, you need Hollywood,” said one former Obama campaign staffer, “That’s how we get the youth vote.
It’s not Joe who gets the 18-29 year olds to come out to vote.”When asked whether the Hollywood ‘cool girls’, like influential actress and producer ReeseWitherspoon, will join the campaign, one top industry insider was doubtful. “Although Democrats do not want Trump to win, it’s really not cool to support Biden,” they said.Another key figure who the campaign were counting on, actress and producer Eva Longoria – seen as a key figure in helping boost the Latino vote in recent years – is living in Europe for the majority of this year, filming her new CNN series, ‘Searching for Spain’.She’s not done filming until just before the November election, but friends say they expect her to at the very least encourage people to vote.
However, it’s not the strong, visible and present support Biden needs in what is proving to be an incredibly tight race between.
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