Kevin O’Leary Warns Dems: ‘Huge Mistake’ to Anoint Harris as Nominee

Businessman and Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary issued a stark warning to Democrats.

He’s suggesting they may have made a massive mistake by anointing Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee.

After Joe Biden bowed out of the race on July 21, following a debate against Trump, the Democrats had little time to get a new candidate.

Harris accepted the nomination at the DNC on Thursday, but O’Leary thinks the party might regret their hasty decision.

Oh, he can take that to the bank.

Mr. Shark realizes a deal when he sees one, and this is candidate is a dud.

He’s walking away with his money on this one.

Will Kamala follow the same pattern as Biden?

Biden went to the debate. Failed. And was replaced right afterwards.

Can you see this repeating next month?

Democrats made a huge mistake with Harris 🤡 https://t.co/gxcU3Cc1xS

— Georgia Log Cabin (@GeorgiaLogCabin) August 26, 2024

Newsweek reports:

Businessman Kevin O’Leary, known for being an investor on ABC’s Shark Tank, warned Democrats on Saturday that they may have made a “huge mistake” when they “anointed” Vice President Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential nominee.

After President Joe Biden exited this year’s presidential race on July 21 and endorsed Harris following a weak showing at the first presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, now the GOP presidential nominee, in Atlanta in late June, the Democrats only had a few weeks to unite and pick a Democratic presidential nominee. Harris accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Thursday.

O’Leary compared Harris’ nomination to that of former Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s nomination in 2016 while appearing on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday morning.

“If in fact, Harris loses—and it’s 50/50, she may win, she may lose—this whole party, the Democratic Party, is going to revisit what happened here because they did the same thing with Hillary Clinton. It was assumed she would win. They anointed her. She lost,” O’Leary told host Rachel Campos-Duffy.

Newsweek reached out to Harris’ campaign via email as well as O’Leary and Clinton via social media direct message on Sunday afternoon.

Clinton, the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party, lost the 2016 election to Trump, who at the time was famous for being a New York real estate businessman and reality star. Although Clinton won the popular vote, receiving roughly 2.9 million more votes than Trump, she lost the Electoral College, an elector-based voting system used to pick presidents. Trump was elected president by winning 30 states with 306 pledged electors (270 electoral votes out of 538 are needed to win).

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“Harris is assumed a winner by anointment,” O’Leary said on Saturday.

“If she loses, the party will never do this to itself again because they missed the opportunity to run a process and suck up another week of airtime and they didn’t do it. And I’m not saying she’s going to lose.”

O’Leary isn’t buying what Kamala’s selling.

If her product of ‘democracy’ was on Shark Tank, she’d be turned down, no question.

Kevin O'Leary slams Kamala's economic policy proposals:

"Price fixing, we tried that in the 70s—that's beyond crazy. Can you imagine America where there's a ministry of pricing for groceries? That tells a farmer what an apple can be sold for and what YOU can buy it… pic.twitter.com/t1hDHphzue

— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) August 20, 2024