Oscar-winning actor George Clooney said he regrets that Democrats tapped then-Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s standard-bearer after Joe Biden ended his bid for a second term in July 2024.

In an interview with CBS News “Sunday Morning,” the “Syriana” and “O Brother Where Art Thou?” star stood by his blistering New York Times op-ed in which he stated bluntly that Biden could not defeat Donald Trump due to his cognitive decline.

“I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary,” the 64-year-old 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 ,” Clooney went on. “It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do,

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