George Clooney Says Biden Replacement With Harris ‘Was A Mistake’

George Clooney has said it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee to face Donald Trump in last November’s US presidential election.

But the actor added that he doesn’t regret writing comment in the New York Times that July, calling on Biden to drop out of the race.

In the piece, titled “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Candidate,” Clooney wrote that the aging president has won many battles in his career, “but the one battle he can’t win is the fight against time.”

Clooney’s comments come after the former president’s son, Hunter Biden, attacked him for questioning his father’s mental acuity.

Less than two weeks after Clooney’s post, Biden announced he would step aside for Harris.

In his interview with CBSthe actor said he would rewrite it, adding, “We had a chance.”

“I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the comment, a primary. Let’s test this quickly and get started,” he said.

But there was no Democratic primary, and Biden’s vice president took the nomination, losing to Trump.

“I think the mistake with being Kamala is that 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 difficult task,” Clooney said.

“I think it was a mistake, to be honest.”

In the post, the actor and prominent Democratic donor wrote that it was “devastating to say this,” but the Joe Biden he met at a fundraiser three weeks earlier was not the Biden of 2010. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020,” he added.

“He was the same guy we all witnessed during the debate,” Clooney said, referring to Biden’s words disastrous televised debate against Trump weeks before, fueling fresh concerns about the 81-year-old and his fitness for work.

In an profanity filled interview with Channel 5’s YouTube with Andrew Callahan, Hunter Biden accused Clooney of exaggerating the former president’s fragility.

Asked why Clooney had interfered in the race, Hunter Biden responded with a series of expletives directed at the actor.

“What do you have to do with… anything?” he said in a message directed at Clooney. “Why should I…listen to you?”

In an interview with the BBC last month Harris said he might run for the White House again.

In her first interview in the UK, Harris said she would “possibly” become president one day and was confident there would be a woman in the White House in the future.