“Replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris was a mistake”: George Clooney regrets that a Democratic primary was not organized

George Clooney doesn’t mess around. Guest on Sunday, November 2 on the program sunday morning On CBS, George Clooney regretted the decision to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for the last presidential campaign in 2024, alleging a “mistake.”

The Oscar-winning actor, 64, has never hidden his commitment to the Democratic Party, which in the past supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. However, would you have preferred the former US president to stay? Would you have rewritten your “I love Joe Biden, but we need another candidate” column published in The New York Times in July 2024? To these questions, the actor answered yes without hesitation.

“We had an opportunity. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in my column, a primary, that we quickly test this option and implement it without delay.”

Following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during the presidential debate against Donald Trump in June 2024, many Hollywood figures demanded that the latter withdraw in favor of a more capable candidate. George Clooney became the face of this movement after his platform and the former presidential candidate withdrew from the race two weeks later, making way for his vice president Kamala Harris.

This position came just weeks after co-hosting a record-breaking $30 million-plus fundraiser for Joe Biden’s campaign, alongside Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand and former President Barack Obama.

Joe Biden, “severely diminished”

According to Georges Clooney, “Kamala’s mistake is that she had to run against her own record. It’s very difficult to do that if the goal of a candidacy is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ That task was too difficult.” Instead of holding open primaries, Kamala Harris was inaugurated by a virtual vote of Democratic Party delegates, a procedure Clooney now considers inadequate.

In Original sin Published in May 2025, journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson say Joe Biden didn’t even recognize Clooney when they met at the June 2024 fundraiser, after a three-day trip to Italy for the G7. The authors report that the actor found the president “severely diminished, as if he had aged a decade” since their last meeting in December 2022.