The View co-host tells George Clooney to open wallet for Kamala Harris

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After George Clooney publicly called on Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, The View’s co-host Ana Navarro is telling the actor to write “a big cheque” to Kamala Harris.

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Following weeks of pressure after a disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump, Biden announced he would not seek a second term as president and endorsed Vice President Harris as this year’s Democratic Presidential nominee.

As news of Biden’s announcement made the rounds, Navarro demanded Clooney open his wallet after his public demands in a New York Times op-ed that Biden step aside came true.

“He’s been dragged relentlessly for three weeks by some people who were supposedly his friend. I hope that a lot of those donors that went out and said all sort of things about him come back with a big cheque now,” Navarro said, looking straight into the camera and adding, “George Clooney es contigo (This is for you).”

Navarro said she had mixed feelings about Biden’s decision, telling viewers: “I was sad in the way when you see a champion athlete retire (and) leave it all on the field and walk away into the sunset. That made me say, it gave me nostalgia.”

However, Navarro’s colleague Sara Haines said Clooney’s criticism was necessary for the good of the Democratic Party.

“A party is not a president, it’s an entire party and every election matters down that ballot as well,” Haines said. “I do think (Clooney’s op-ed) began some very hard conversations.”

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Meanwhile, co-host Sunny Hostin said the 81-year-old president’s decision was proof he’s a “patriot.”

“He has such a great record as president. History will note him as one of the greatest presidents that we’ve had. I really do believe that. But I wasn’t comfortable with the notion that people were forcing him out. I wasn’t comfortable with the cannibalization I saw within the Democratic party. But I am comfortable if he made this decision with his inner circle and family and decided to do it on his own.”

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Clooney caused a stir earlier this month when he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in which he pleaded with Biden to abandon his campaign warning that Democrats were “not going to win in November” unless a change was made.

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“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced,” Clooney wrote.

“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Clooney said Democrats have been “so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term” that they didn’t pay attention to the warning signs that Biden was on the decline. 

After Clooney’s column, Haines also begged Biden to walk away while on the air. “I think President Biden needs to step down and be replaced,” Haines told her co-hosts. 

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Following Biden’s exit, multiple sources have told PEOPLE that Trump is now fretting over the possibility of having to face Harris.

“He says he can topple Kamala Harris as easily as he could topple Biden, but down deep he is scared of her youth,” a political insider in Florida tells PEOPLE. “Of course she may not be the candidate, but if she is, he is also aware of her political and legal brilliance and deep understanding of the issues facing the American people.”

“Trump is worried and has been worried and his allies have been worried, but Trump knows how to fake confidence,” another source adds.

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