 Pressure on the president is growing from outside Washington too. In another blow to Biden, actor and Democratic mega donor George Clooney writing in the New York Times, I love Joe Biden, but we need a new nominee. Just three weeks ago, Clooney raised a record $30 million for the president at a star-studded Hollywood fundraiser. But now the Oscar-winning actor saying the Joe Biden he saw then was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.