George Clooney says replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris ‘was a mistake’ | George Clooney
George Clooney stated that he thought it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden in the 2024 US presidential elections, and added that he had no regrets about this situation. New York Times opinion piece He called on Democrats to find a new presidential candidate.
The Talk on CBS Sunday MorningThe actor and activist, who is a major financial donor to the Democratic Party, said he would write the column again if given the opportunity and wishes Democrats would hold a new primary to choose a presidential candidate. Instead, Harris was nominated by a virtual vote of party delegates.
“We had a chance,” Clooney said. “I wanted there to be a primary, as I wrote in the transcript. Let’s test it quickly and take action. I think the mistake was that Kamala had to run against her own record. If the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person,’ it’s very difficult to do that. It’s difficult to do that, and that’s why she was given a very difficult task.”
“I think it was a mistake, to be honest. But we’re where we are right now. They’re saying we’re going to lose more seats in the House of Representatives. So I don’t know. To not do that would be to say, ‘I’m not going to tell the truth.'”
Clooney’s column is in the headlines “I Love Joe Biden, But We Need a New Candidate”It was a prominent example amid a growing wave of opposition among Democratic voters over whether Biden, who performed poorly in the first presidential debate with Donald Trump, can continue as US president.
“We won’t win with this president in November,” Clooney wrote at the time. “On top of that, we’re not going to win the House and we’re going to lose the Senate. That’s not just my opinion; it’s the opinion of every senator, congressman, and governor I’ve talked to privately. Every single one of them, no matter what they say publicly.”
In July, Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, gave a three-hour television interview that included profanity. US outlet Channel 5 He attacked Clooney for writing a column here.
“Fuck him!” Hunter Biden said this about Clooney. “To hell with him and everyone around him. I don’t have to be nice.”
He questioned why anyone would listen to Clooney, saying: “What the hell are you doing with these damn things? What right do you have to step on a man who devoted his fucking life to serving this country and decide that you, George Clooney, take out a full-page ad in the fucking New York Times?”
Asked by CBS if he saw Hunter Biden’s reaction, Clooney laughed sarcastically and said, “Yes, I did.” When asked what he was doing about it, he said, “I could spend a lot of time refuting a lot of the things he’s said… but the truth is, I don’t think looking back like that helps anyone. Especially him. I don’t think it helps the Democratic party. So I’m just going to wish him well for his continued recovery and hope he’s okay and leave it at that.”
“I have a lot of personal opinions on this subject, but I don’t think it would be helpful to argue with him publicly.”
Since her failed presidential bid, Harris has criticized Biden’s initial decision to run for a second term. In his book 107 Days, published in September, he wrote that he “was in the worst position to suggest that he should drop out of school” because “I knew it would be incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run away. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: don’t let the other guy win.”
