The Sunday Mirror reports that Clooney is being courted by Barack Obama’s Democratic Party to run for office. Clooney has been a high-profile supporter of the Democrats and campaigned for President Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 US Presidential elections. The two are now personal friends, with the actor attending a screening of his most recent movie, The Monuments Men, at the White House for the President and guests.
Clooney has even been tipped as a possible Democratic candidate in the 2022 Presidential race.
His fiancée, British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, is said to strengthen his political credentials.
“Now that Amal is by his side it has boosted his credentials even higher,” a friend of the couple has told the Mirror.
“She is as far removed as some of the girls he has previously dated and possesses incredible intelligence that bodes well if she ever does become First Lady.
“It would certainly add a new meaning to the “special relationship” between Britain and America.”
The Oscar winner’s foray into politics would follow in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger who was Republican Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. A similar path was also trod by Republican icon Ronald Reagan, who after becoming governor of the Golden State for 1967 to 1975, was voted in to the White House in 1981.
