Aaron Sorkin no longer believes the Democratic Party should select Republican Senator Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2024 presidential race.
Earlier on Sunday, an op-ed by Sorkin was published in the New York Times, in which the “West Wing” creator suggested that the Democratic Party should select a Republican candidate to defeat former President Donald Trump this November.
“At their convention next month, the Democrats should nominate Mitt Romney,” Sorkin wrote.
However, after President Joe Biden announced hours later that he was dropping out of the race, Sorkin retracted his sentiment — or his “pitch to the writers’ room,” as he put it in his op-ed. He also publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her campaign for the White House.
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“I take it all back. Harris for America!” Sorkin wrote on Sunday, asking “West Wing” star Joshua Malina to share the statement on his X/Twitter account. Sorkin’s publicist Jodie Oriol confirmed to PvNew that the statement is real.
In his NYT op-ed, Sorkin argued that Romney as the Democratic presidential nominee would be “a clear and powerful demonstration” about “stopping a deranged man from taking power.”
“The choice is between Donald Trump and not-Trump, and the not-Trump candidate needs only one qualification: to win enough votes from a cross section of Americans to close off the former president’s Electoral College path back to power,” Sorkin added.
Harris is unchallenged as yet for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.
“I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda. We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”
