The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has retracted an essay he wrote for The New York Times Sunday morning after Joe Biden stepped down as the Democratic nominee later that same day. In his essay , Sorkin proposed that the Democrats nominate former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in an attempt to unify the public and fend off a Trump victory. Hours after the op-ed was published Biden, 81, announced he was stepping aside following weeks of resistance.
He, along with several top Democrats, has now endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s new nominee . Via his West Wing star Joshua Malina, whom he asked to share his statement on Twitter/X, Sorkin said: “I take it all back. Harris for America!” In his essay, Sorkin drew parallels between real-world events and his acclaimed TV series, which focused on the goings-on at the White House during the administration of Democrat Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen).
Describing a plotline in which Bartlet chose to run for re-election despite being diagnosed with a serious illness, Sorkin said the plotline would have played out differently if his fictional opponent was a figure like Trump. “What if Bartlet’s opponent had been a dangerous imbecile with an observable psychiatric disorder who related to his supporters on a fourth-grade level and treated the law as something for suckers and poor people?” He wrote. “And was a hero to white supremacists? We’d have had Bartlet drop out of the race and endorse whoever ha.