Aaron Sorkin is taking again his suggestion that the Democratic occasion nominate Mitt Romney as its 2024 presidential candidate, expressed in a New York Instances op-ed that was revealed on-line Sunday.

After Sorkin’s piece dropped, President Joe Biden introduced that he was ending his 2024 re-election bid and could be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris because the Democratic nominee.

Later, Sorkin’s West Wing actor Josh Malina posted what appeared like a screenshot of a message from the writer.

“I have to borrow your Twitter account once more,” Sorkin’s word started earlier than he supplied a recommended tweet: “I take all of it again. Harris for America!”

A rep for Sorkin confirmed the accuracy of his word and the Instances piece was up to date with a word about Biden dropping out of the 2024 race.

In his op-ed Sorkin, the Oscar-winning scribe of The Social Community who additionally penned the 1995 political movie The American President, identified the similarities between West Wing’s fictitious President Bartlet and the real-life political panorama this yr, together with an tried taking pictures of a personality and a president contending with a critical sickness.

Like Biden, Sorkin wrote, Bartlet additionally confronted the query of whether or not or to not run for re-election. The screenwriter famous that his character triumphantly determined to run, and says in a 3rd season opener, “I’m going to win.”

However, Sorkin famous, “as a result of I wanted the West Wing viewers to search out President Bartlet’s intransigence heroic, I didn’t actually dramatize any downward pull that his sickness was having on his re-election probabilities. And far more essential, I didn’t dramatize any hazard posed by Bartlet’s opponent successful.”

Sorkin added that “if, on account of Bartlet revealing his sickness, polling confirmed him dropping to his probably opponent” — and if that opponent was “a dump truck of ignorance and dangerous intentions” who “had been a harmful imbecile with an observable psychiatric dysfunction who associated to his supporters on a fourth-grade stage and handled the legislation as one thing for suckers and poor folks” and “was a hero to white supremacists” — Bartlet would have dropped out of the race.

“The issue in the actual world is that there isn’t a Democrat who’s polling considerably higher than Mr. Biden,” Sorkin continued. “And quitting, as heroic as it might be on this case, doesn’t actually put a lump in our throats.”

His resolution? “The Democratic Social gathering ought to decide a Republican,” he wrote. “At their conference subsequent month, the Democrats ought to nominate Mitt Romney.”

Sorkin argued that the decide “wouldn’t simply put a lump in folks’s throats with its attraction to stop-Donald-Trump-at-all-costs unity, however with its originality and sense of sacrifice.”

He added that the selection “could be placing our cash the place our mouth is: a transparent and highly effective demonstration that this election isn’t about what our elections are often about it, however about stopping a deranged man from taking energy.”

To conclude, he emphasised: “However principally, [the move to elect Romney] could be the tip of Donald Trump in presidential politics.”

3:24 p.m. This story has been up to date with Sorkin taking again his Romney thought and endorsing Harris.

This story was initially revealed on July 21 at 9:25 a.m.