George Clooney is looking back on the "mistake" Democrats made in the 2024 election.
During an interview on "CBS Sunday Morning," the "Jay Kelly" star, who wrote a New York Times op-ed in 2024 calling on Democrats to replace Joe Biden as their presidential nominee, reflected on former Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss to President Donald Trump.
Clooney told CBS that he wishes Democrats would have had a competitive primary to decide on the best candidate to replace Biden, rather than quickly anointing Harris as his successor.
"I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary," Clooney said. "'Let's battle test this quickly and get it up and going.' I think the mistake with it being Kamala is that she had to run against her own record. 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."
Clooney added, "I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are."
