Aaron Sorkin, the creator of NBC’s ’90s drama series “West Wing,” withdrew his suggestion that the Democratic Party nominated Republican Senator Mitt Romney to run against former President Trump and instead endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
On Monday, after President Biden announced his support for Harris, Sorkin, who has no social media, emailed his friend and “West Wing” star Joshua Malina asking him to take his job back. Sunday Tribune in the New York Times.
“I need to borrow your Twitter account again,” Sorkin told Malina in an email. “I take back everything I said. Harris for America!”
Harris has no rival for the Democratic nomination, which will be formally decided at the Aug. 19 convention in Chicago.
In his op-ed, Sorkin argued that Romney’s nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate would be “a clear and powerful demonstration” of the ability to “stop a deranged man from taking power.”
He also suggested that “Democrats nominating a Republican” could be the “healing event” everyone wanted after the assassination attempt on Trump.
Notably, in 2012, Sorkin pressured Obama to repeatedly call Romney a liar during the debates.
Sorkin told his friend and former “West Wing” actor Joshua Malina via email: “I take back everything I said. Harris for America!” Aaron Sorkin/Kamla Harris. (Getty Images)
“Nominating Mr. Romney would be putting his money where his mouth is: making it clear and forceful that this election is not about what we usually call our elections, but about preventing a deranged man from taking power,” Sorkin wrote.
Sorkin also said he doesn’t think there is a Democratic polling better than President Biden.
“The real-world problem is that no Democrat is polling better than Mr. Biden,” he wrote. “And resigning, heroic as it may be in this case, doesn’t exactly put a damper on our necks.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Sorkin for additional comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
