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American history unfortunately will thank Clooney for encouraging the
moron party to run Kamala Harris against Trump, where she got a royal ass-beating from the intelligent parts of the country.

Actor and major Democratic donor George Clooney told CNN there should
have been a primary election last summer after then-President Joe Biden
dropped out of the presidential race, while sharing which Democrat has
caught his attention for 2028.

Clooney’s comments, made in a sit-down interview Tuesday with CNN’s Jake Tapper, come as Democrats seek to correct their mistakes from the last
election – in which they also lost the Senate to Republicans – and to coalesce around a strong message for 2028.

“How they were running was that it was a failed administration,” Clooney said on “The Lead” of the campaign that former Vice President Kamala
Harris inherited after Biden immediately threw his support behind her.
“You can’t run against yourself, right? And that’s why that was a difficult campaign. It’s hard to run against yourself and say, ‘Well, I disagree with all this.’”

Clooney is seen by many Democratic backers in Hollywood as a sort of
compass given his engagement and activism. When he penned a New York
Times op-ed last summer calling for Biden to not seek reelection, it
marked a watershed moment in a movement that ended with the president’s decision to exit the race.

Instead of Harris inheriting the ticket, Clooney argued there should
have been a race for the Democratic nomination. While he contended that
Harris could have won a primary, Clooney said he had his eye on one
particular governor.

“I think we have some really good governors,” Clooney said, adding that
he would’ve liked to see a “quick primary” and naming Andy Beshear, the governor of his home state of Kentucky, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer.

“But who I think is … levitating above that is Wes Moore,” Clooney said, referring to the Democratic governor from Maryland and pointing to his
handling of last year’s Baltimore bridge collapse. “He’s a proper
leader. … I like him a lot. I think he could be someone we could all
join in behind.”

Clooney also stressed that now is the time for Democrats to find their
next leader. “We have to find somebody – rather soon,” he said, adding, “It’s our job now to put together a proper team to stand up.”

Clooney headlined a star-studded fundraiser for Biden’s reelection
campaign last June. But just weeks later, following Biden’s disastrous performance against Donald Trump at CNN’s presidential debate, the actor wrote the stunning New York Times op-ed, which he described Tuesday as a “civic duty.”

“Because I found that people on my side of the street – you know, I’m a Democrat. I was a Democrat in Kentucky, so I get it – when I saw people
on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was
time,” Clooney told Tapper.

In his op-ed last summer, Clooney – who has a long friendship with Biden
– cast doubt on the president’s fitness and stressed he was “was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010.”

“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020,” Clooney wrote. Biden would ultimately drop out just weeks later, and Clooney quickly endorsed
Harris.

In the op-ed, Clooney similarly called for a Democratic primary, writing
that the country deserves to hear from other politicians seen as
potential replacements for Biden, including Harris, Moore, Whitmer and
Beshear.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/george-clooney-biden-wes-moore-cn ntv/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

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