George Clooney has no regrets about penning a New York Times op-ed calling for former president Joe Biden bow out of the 2024 presidential election. However, the actor now says it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to step in as the new candidate.

Speaking on CBS’ Sunday Morning , Clooney acknowledged that he would write the op-ed again in hindsight. “We had a chance,” he said. “I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going.”

He continued, “I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record. It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where

See Full Page