Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Defends Kamala Harris Avoiding Press to Fox News: Her Campaign is In ‘Euphoric Stage!’
Shark Tank co-host and conservative financial personality Kevin O’Leary defended Vice President Kamala Harris for avoiding interviews or press conferences in the 17 days since she ostensibly became the Democratic nominee.
Multiple Harris critics, including former President Donald Trump, Senator JD Vance, and a raft of Fox News opinion hosts, have repeated the charge that the Vice President has been “hiding” from the press in the past two and a half weeks — in partisan attacks that feel recycled from President Joe Biden campaigning from his basement charges in 2020.
From O’Leary’s perspective, shared during Wednesday morning appearance on America’s Newsroom, Harris is enjoying so much momentum at the moment, things are going so well for her since she became the nominee; she has little reasons to borrow trouble by taking tough questions during a press conference or a journalist willing to challenge her.
“Kamala Harris’s campaign website has no economic plans,” Bill Hemmer noted. “We were just going through it again to the commercial break. It’s it’s a bio about her and it’s a bio about her. There is no tab for issues.” Hemmer is accurate in noting that the Harris campaign has put forth no major policy issues so far in the past two months.
“It’s intentional,” O’Learly flatly explained. “She has no intention of putting any policy out there until this convention is over.” He then shared how he spoke to some of Harris’s “closest advisers.”
“So I call them up and say, hey, listen, you want to talk about policy here?” O’Leary revealed. “And they said, ‘Listen, everything’s working right now. We’re going to strong-arm the press on policy. We don’t need to do anything.'”
“Everything working?!” Sandra Smith interjected,” to which O’Leary explained:
The momentum’s crazy. The press she’s getting right now. She has her campaign. The campaign, okay, not campaign is working. And there’s no reason to sit down with any journalist and talk policy right now because we’re in the euphoric stage. They think they can raise up to $300 million before this camp, before before this, this whole thing that’s going to happen over the weekend is over. So that’s extraordinary amount of money. Then it’s time to talk policy. Then it’s time to go to the center. Then it’s time to talk about border.
Smith replied, “So are they telling you where she stands?”
“No, they’re just saying, listen, we don’t worry about this right now,” he explained. “We don’t have a problem. No problem here, Houston. We’re just raisin dough. And you got ahead of tour. They’re now talking within that campaign about a path to winning that they didn’t even see eight days ago.”
While there is room for legitimate criticism over Harris avoiding the press, it’s worth noting that — apart from an explosive NABJ event last week — Trump has avoided any difficult interview since he sat with Bret Baier in June of 2023.
Watch above via Fox News.
