Clooney: Pressuring Biden to drop out was a "mistake" [View all]
Source: Salon
Published November 30, 2025 2:08PM (EST)
George Clooney was one of the loudest voices calling for former President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election. In a recent interview with The Times of London, the actor said that pushing Biden out of the race was a “mistake.”
Speaking to the outlet in a joint interview with Adam Sandler, the “Jay Kelly” star said former Vice President Kamala Harris was left with too steep a hill to climb. “She was given a very tough task,” he said. Following Harris’ loss, the Democrats are left with no easy answers for their next presidential candidate.
The prominent Democratic Party booster balked at predicting the field for 2028. “Honestly, the next election is three years away, and if you look at the election cycles, two years from when Bill Clinton won, we thought Paul Tsongas was going to be the nominee,” he said. “We thought it would be Hillary when Barack Obama won, so we’re far away from having to home in on who could run for the Democratic Party — we’ll see, we’ll wait.”
The actor told the Times that partisan politics in the United States obscured common desires. “Look, it’s an interesting time in my country, but most people, right and left, want the same. They want a job with dignity, health for themselves and their family,” he said. “And so whoever runs has to be able to articulate the common ground, because division is getting us nowhere.”
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/11/30/clooney-pressuring-biden-to-drop-out-was-a-mistake/
He was doubling, tripling, quadrupling, and quintupling down with his arrogant backstabbing moves, literally all year, insulting everyone in earshot. So I wonder what finally got him to crack? The country's destruction maybe?
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