Barstool’s Dave Portnoy slams Kamala Harris: ‘worst candidate to ever run for president’

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy posted a six-minute joke on social media in which he slammed Vice President Kamala Harris as “the worst presidential candidate in the history of American politics.”

“I’m so sick of gas like she’s a great candidate,” the multimillionaire said in a video on Sunday.

“Look at the world stage. Afghanistan was a disaster, the Middle East is basically on fire, you have Russia,” Portnoy said. “Then back home, inflation is out of control, people burning American flags in the streets … law and order doesn’t even seem to matter anymore, you have the border, immigration.”

Portnoy — who has an estimated net worth of $150 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth — built his fortune by selling his media company Barstool Sports for $551 million in 2023 and buying it back for just $1 later that year.

Barstool began as a Boston-based print publication and has since grown into a social media empire.

Every once in a while, I get so tired of politics that I have to make a joke and just let off steam. I try not to, but I’ve reached the boiling point,” Portnoy said in his video.

“It’s the gaslighting the left is doing with Kamala Harris, making it sound like she’s a great, groundbreaking candidate,” he said. “She is the worst candidate to ever run for president.”

“El Presidente,” as Portnoy calls himself, was a “huge fan” of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley during her presidential run.

Since Haley withdrew from the race in March, he has thrown his support behind former President Donald Trump. Although Portnoy dissed Harris in his video, he said he doesn’t like celebrity endorsements.

The business mogul argued that there are only two types of voters in the 2024 presidential election: those who vote for Trump and those who “hate” Trump and vote against him.

Americans who vote for Harris “are voting against him [Trump] because you hate his guts and you’d vote for a potato or a head of lettuce or something,” Portnoy said.

One of Portnoy’s biggest problems with Harris is that she is campaigning as a candidate for change.

At multiple rallies, Harris has told crowds that “it’s time to turn the page.”

“This is the current vice president of the United States saying she is the candidate for change,” Portnoy said.

He argued that Harris “needs” to present herself as a candidate for change because most people agree that the last four years under President Joe Biden were a “disaster.”

Portnoy also criticized Harris’ recent media foray, including appearances on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “The View.”

“She’s being asked the simplest questions, softballs that she probably knew were coming,” he said.

For example, he said, Harris has been asked on several talk shows how her presidency will differ from Biden’s.

“She can’t answer it!” Portnoy exclaimed. Kamala Harris can’t even answer the easiest questions of all time. She never gives a straight answer. She seems unable to string together coherent thoughts.”