Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary suggested that Vice President Harris could be a Hillary Clinton 2.0 situation.
“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,” O’Leary said Saturday on Fox News.
“They did the same thing with Hillary Clinton,” he continued, highlighted by Mediaite.
O’Leary argued that Clinton and Harris’s situations are similar because they both have been anointed by the Democratic Party.
As pressure mounted for President Biden to suspend his campaign and allow someone else to run, questions rose about who would take his spot and if the party would create a mini primary of sorts for interested candidates to throw their hat in the ring.
When Biden announced he was stepping aside, he endorsed his running mate, Harris. Since then, top Democrats have joined him in endorsing Harris and she officially became the party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention this week.
If Harris loses to Trump in the upcoming election like Clinton did in 2016, the “party will never do this to itself again.”
“I’m not saying she’s going to lose, but I would have never let that happen,” he said. “If I’m selling a business, I tell my managers, never bring me one offer, bring me a process. Show me there’s no other bid out there that I want. Then I’ll make my decision if I’m selling.”
O’Leary said he was amazed that Democrats didn’t allow someone else the opportunity to run, including rumored candidate Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.).
“There may have been other candidates or [Harris] could have emerged much stronger but they didn’t do that,” he said. “That may prove to be a huge mistake.”
