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George Clooney said during a recent sit-down on CBS\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning\u201d<\/a> that he had no regrets about writing his New York Times op-ed<\/a> insisting that former president Joe Biden bow out of the 2024 presidential election. However, in hindsight, he feels that it was a \u201cmistake\u201d to have Kamala Harris step in for Biden as the democratic nominee.<\/p>\n

When asked if he would write his NYT op-ed again if given the chance, Clooney replied, \u201cYes. We had a chance. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let\u2019s 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\u2019s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, \u2018I\u2019m not that person.\u2019 It\u2019s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task. 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\u2019t know. To not do it would be to say, \u2018I\u2019m not gonna tell the truth.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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After Biden\u2019s disastrous performance during his first presidential debate with Donald Trump, many in Hollywood called for him to step aside for a more capable candidate. Clooney became the de facto face of this movement after his July 2024 essay. In it, he wrote of Biden, \u201cWe are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won\u2019t win the House, and we\u2019re going to lose the Senate. This isn\u2019t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I\u2019ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

After facing backlash for the piece, Clooney told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper that he felt it was his \u201ccivic duty<\/a>\u201d to call attention to what he believed was an imperative issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the deal, you have to take your stand if you believe in it,\u201d he said. \u201cTake a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences. That\u2019s the rules, so when people criticize me \u2014 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 \u2014 I have to take that, that\u2019s fair. I\u2019m OK with that, I\u2019m OK with criticism for where I stand. I defend their right to criticize me as much as I defend my right to criticize them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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