How Joe Biden Donald Trump handed over the presidency

President Joe Biden rose the day after the election of 2024, he was wrong. The Élites, the democratic civil servants, the media, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama – they shouldn’t have pushed him out of the race. If he had stayed in it, he would have beaten Donald Trump. The surveys suggested that to say again and again.

His survey told us that there were no such surveys. There was no credible data to support the idea that he had won. All the unpunted information indicates that this would have been a loss, probably a spectacular, far worse than the replacement as a democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The separation between bidens optimism and the unfortunate reality of the survey results was a constant during his entire administration. Many insiders felt that his inner circle protected him from bad news. It is also true that he had to face the largest topic so that bidges have absorbed these poll results: the public had come to the conclusion – long before most democratic civil servants, media and other “Éliten” – that he was far too old to do the job.

“We were so fooled as a party,” said David Plouffe, who helped the Harris campaign to lead. Plouffe was in 2008 as Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign manager and as the senior advisor to President Obama, before he largely retired from politics in 2013. After Biden had been canceled from the race on July 21, 2024, Plouffe was collected to help Harris in a “rescue mission”. Harris, he said, was a “big soldier”, but the compressed hundred -day races was “a damned nightmare”.

“And everything is bidding,” said Plouffe. Plouffe decided to run to repetition and then wait more than three weeks after the debate, adding: “He totally fucked us.”

The real problem was not his age. It was the clear restrictions of his skills that got worse during his presidency. What the public saw from its way was worrying. What went privately was worse. While bids certainly make decisions and wisdom during the day and could act as president, there were several significant problems that complicated his presidency: a border for the hours in which he could work reliably and more and more moments when he seemed to freeze to prevent his thoughts, to lose the names of the top-aids, or do not remember monomedan that he has known for friends that he confessed to Decades of acquaintances. Not to mention impairments for its communication skills – but also that are not related to his lifelong stuttering.

It was not a straight line of decline; He had good days and bad. But until the last day of his presidency, bidges and those who are closest to him refused to steal the reality that his energy, cognitive skills and his communication capacity had stalled considerably. Even worse, they tried to hide it with different means. And then the debate came against Trump on June 27, when Biden’s decline was exposed to the world. As a result, the Democrats stumbled in autumn 2024 with an undestected candidate and the growing public distrust of a white house that the American people had gas light.

“It was an excavation”, a prominent democratic strategist – the bids publicly defended – have us. “He stole a election to the Democratic Party. He stole it to the American people.” Biden had framed his entire presidency as a proposed fight to prevent Trump from returning to the Oval Office. By having no power and refusing to be honest and being over his decline of the country, he guaranteed it.

George Clooney met Joe Biden, the top democrat on the Senate Committee from the foreign relations, in New York City after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but her first meaningful conversation came after the actor became a credible voice that campaigned against the genocide in Darfur.

Clooney won the best supporting actor Oscar for “Syriana” in 2006 and reported in 2006 with reading that the state-oriented forces under the Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir killed innocent civilians in the country region. It felt like an appeal. He tried to travel there with a national television station network, but the conditions became so dangerous that the journalists were. George and his father Nick, a former TV anchorman, who was at the time seventy, flew to South Sudan in April 2006 and crept with a cameraman in Darfur. After the Clooneys had fought in sludge huts with nine days of brutal heat, zero security and rough nights, they returned to the USA in time to a rally organized by the Save Darf Coalition in the National Mall, in which other speakers then included Senator Barack Obama. A few months later, Clooney testified to the UN Security Council, and next year the Clooneys published their documentary “A Journey to Darfur”. He skipped the Oscars in 2009 to meet President Obama and Vice President Biden. He provided them with two hundred and fifty thousand signed Save Darfur postcards and urged a full-time representative to the region.

When the presidential race began in 2024, the actor had known bidies for decades and knew it well for fifteen years. He had last seen Biden on December 4, 2022 when Clooney with his wife Amal was in DC to celebrate honors at Kennedy Center. Biden looked older, but in the Eastern Zimmer of the White House when the president was playful for the winners and seemed expedient enough.

“We see Amal Clooney’s husband,” said the president to laugh.

Yes, he read about prepared comments, but far from an actor to question someone.

“Mentors – he mentors this – these historical children from Parkland on their march and life – stumble a little of gun violence,” said Biden. “I met with each of these children and they really appreciate what they did, George. No joke.”

In February 2024, Clooney thought that the report by special consultant Robert Hur, who called bidges an “older man with a bad memory” was mean. And when bids gave a rousing state of the Union in March, Clooney thought, thought To go away, Mr. President. He had helped him be elected in 2020 and was happy to do this again.

For the removal in 2024, everyone who was involved in the campaign knew that it would be difficult to beat Trump-and would require a record-breaking amount of money. The Hollywood Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg led the load on this front. He had helped the Democratic Party with resources – money and connections – because he was the early 1980s as a manager at Paramount Pictures and student of leading the legendary businessman Lew Wasserman. He had supported some congress members, but Katzenberg’s first real foray came into the world of big-donor policy when he and David Geffen flew to Arkansas in 1990 to meet a young governor named Bill Clinton. Since then, Katzenberg had become a top donation campaign for democratic presidential candidates.

Katzenberg had had Biden since the late 19-year-olds and was already on board in October 2018 when he organized a Meet & Greet for the former Vice President in Wilshire in his office in Wilshire. Katzenberg told him that he would support bidens campaign that he had best positioned him to beat Trump. I don’t want anything from you, he said. I could be the only one who doesn’t. I just want you to win.

Bidenberg became more than a donor in 2020 in 2020. When he approached in 2024, he saw Biden’s communication fights and thought he could help repair her. He worked to better illuminate bidges and try to find a microphone that bids reinforced if he would break into a whisper for the focus. Katzenberg also recruited his friend Steven Spielberg, the bidden for the state of the Union and his debates in the routine campaign videos. However, there was only so much that Hollywood Magic could do.

When it was time for the repeat campaign, Katzenberg worked on a spectacularly successful March donation campaign in the Radio City Music Hall with Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton. It collected 26 million dollar-die campaign, which were the most at a single event for a democratic presidential candidate. In spring he and the top campaigns discussed when they could bring bidies to California. Katzenberg told the campaign that he wanted to try to achieve a different record number.

Katzenberg and Clooney were buddies and they had a long, successful track record at these events: In May 2012, they had broken in the Studio City Home of Clooney in the Studio City Home of Clooneys Studio City with an almost fifteen million dollar event. Organized two events for Hillary Clinton in 2016; And with a fundraising campaign by Zoom in more than $ seven million in July 2020, in which Obama came to Biden.

At a rainy Easter in his house in the south of France, on the last day in March in 2024, Clooney from Katzenberg heard his question in June. Katzenberg had learned over the years that there was a cadence of the number of a campaign that could ask people for money. He believed that the Biden team could get another bite on the apple in summer and then one last on the other side of the working day. But Clooney would be in London and Tuscany in June and worked with the filmmaker Noah Baumbach to “Jay Kelly”, a film that Baumbach had put together with Emily Mortimer. It was a big project for Netflix in which Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern were involved.