George Clooney Admits Replacing Biden With Kamala Was A ‘Mistake’

Actor and major Democratic donor George Clooney declared that the strategy of replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris months before the 2024 election was a “mistake.”

The “Ocean’s Eleven” star made the admission during an interview with CBS “Sunday Morning.”

When asked if he would write his infamous New York Times op-ed again if he had a chance to redo things, Clooney said he would.

“Yes. We had a chance. 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. 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,” the actor said.

“I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are. We were gonna lose more House seats, they say. So I don’t know. To not do it would be to say, ‘I’m not gonna tell the truth.’”

After Biden totally flubbed his first presidential debate against Trump, Clooney echoed what many in Hollywood were saying and wrote his thoughts in an essay published in July 2024, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

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He wrote at the time, “We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”

Clooney defended speaking out after being criticized, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time that it was his “civic duty” to call for Biden to drop out of the race.

“That’s the deal, you have to take your stand if you believe in it,” he said at the time. “Take a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences. That’s the rules, so when people criticize me — they criticized me for my stance against the war 20 years ago, people picketed my movies and they put me on a deck of cards — I have to take that, that’s fair. I’m OK with that, I’m OK with criticism for where I stand. I defend their right to criticize me as much as I defend my right to criticize them.”