Clooney: Replacing Biden With Harris Was a Mistake

George Clooney said it was a 'mistake' to have Kamala Harris replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee because she was forced to run against her own record and he had preferred an open primary to 'battle-test' a new candidate. He defended his New York Times op-ed urging Biden to step aside, saying he would write it again. Clooney said party leaders privately feared losing House and Senate seats with Biden atop the ticket. He called many of Hunter Biden's public attacks 'outright lies' but declined to engage in a public spat and wished Hunter well in his recovery. Clooney expressed concern about what he sees as an ongoing attack on institutions that hold truth to power and framed his intervention as a civic duty.