Barstool’s Portnoy rips Dems for saying ‘democracy’ saved by Harris, when elite ‘handpicked’ her without vote

Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy condemned Democrats, arguing they have "hijacked" the very democracy they claimed to defend.

President Biden announced in an open letter on the X platform this Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 race, declaring he will endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to top the ticket. Biden had faced waves of defections from Democratic lawmakers who implored him to withdraw from the presidential race after his widely criticized performance in the presidential debate.

Portnoy has slammed the Democratic Party and American liberals repeatedly since the announcement, arguing that they were hiding Biden’s age-related issues and merely trying to "hijack" democracy. On Monday afternoon, Portnoy spoke directly about his issue with Democrats backing Kamala Harris as the new candidate.

"I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when the left keep calling Trump a threat to Democracy when the Dems didn't let their own party vote for their candidate," he wrote in a post on X. "It's insane!!!!"

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Portnoy slammed Harris for being the Democratic Party’s presumptive replacement nominee when she did not appear a viable competitor for the nomination in 2020.

"She was so disliked and such a bad candidate, she didn’t make it through the first f---ing primary, and I guess she’s never gonna have to get a real vote, because she’s been handpicked on purpose by the people who have been running Joe for the last 2-3 years, and now they’re gonna try to run her and trot her out," he said.

But beyond this incident itself, Portnoy said that rhetoric from liberal celebrities like actor Rob Reiner "set me off." Portnoy argued that, "Democrats and the left,