George Clooney says he doesn’t regret publicly calling for Joe Biden to step down as the 2024 Democratic candidate, calling Kamala Harris’s nomination a mistake.
George Clooney doesn’t regret his decision to publicly plead for former president Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Clooney, 64, believed Democrats „had a chance“ at winning the election, but noted a glaring „mistake“ was tossing former vice president Kamala Harris into the race.
Following Biden’s devastating debate performance against Trump in June 2024, the „ER“ actor called for Biden to voluntarily step aside for a better, younger candidate in a guest essay penned for The New York Times.
During a sit-down with Seth Doane on CBS‘ „Sunday Morning“, Clooney didn’t hesitate to say „yes“ when asked if he would once again risk expressing himself in a political forum.
„We had a chance. I wanted there to be – as I wrote in the op-ed – a primary“, Clooney said. „Let’s battle test this quickly and get it up and going.
„I think the mistake with it being Kamala is that she had to run against her own record, and it’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say ‚I’m not that person.‘ It’s hard to do.“
He added, „She was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, honestly, but we are where we are. We were going to lose more house seats, they say. I don’t know. To not do it would be to say I’m not going to tell the truth.“
In July 2024, Clooney noted that he couldn’t recognize the former president anymore, and urged fellow Democrats to speak up and out against handing Biden the Democratic ticket to run for a second term.
