Ashley Judd pens deeply personal op-ed calling on Biden to step aside: ‘We can’t risk a Trump presidency’

Actress Ashley Judd has joined the strengthening chorus of voices — which now includes several celebrities — calling on President Joe Biden to step aside.

In a deeply personal and heartfelt op-ed for USA Today, she wrote that some of her “beloved chosen and biological family… feverishly love Donald Trump,” but she can’t imagine the former president bringing his “cruelty” to the White House for a second term.

She added that during the disastrous June 27 debate — where Biden appeared confused and frail, losing his train of thought and making several gaffes— the president was unable to counter Trump as he “gushed a firehose of galling lies.”

“I now ask President Joe Biden to step aside,” she wrote.

Judd’s op-ed, which argues that “we can’t risk a Trump presidency,” comes as an increasing number of elected Democrats and activists are calling on the president to leave his race for re-election.

Despite the mounting pressure, Biden has remained resolute about his decision to press on with his re-election bid, stating in no uncertain terms during his solo press conference Thursday night that he’s in it to win.

After making several noteworthy gaffes, like referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “Putin” earlier in the day and Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump” during the press conference, Biden reaffirmed that he’s running, saying “I think I’m the most qualified. I beat him once and I will beat him again.”

He insisted: “I’m not in this for my legacy. I’m in it to finish the job I’ve started.”

Judd is not the first actor to call on Biden to go. In a damning op-ed for The New York Times, George Clooney wrote on Wednesday that “the one battle” Biden “cannot win is the fight against time.” His