On Thursday, “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary appeared on FNC’s “The Story” and responded to the Kamala Harris campaign’s proposal to freeze grocery prices.
O’Leary rejected the suggestion, saying it was unlikely that a Harris administration would impose such measures.
Instead, he said the vice president should distance himself from President Joe Biden’s economic policies, which he considers “nuclear waste.”
“[T]”The government is not going to control the price of protein or food or energy,” he said. “It’s been tried before in countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, Cuba. It didn’t work. So yeah, clearly that’s not going to happen. I think what we saw today is because we saw Harris and Biden together. So that’s the first sign of a policy. Banging the drug companies is always a good strategy. It’s been done since the ’60s. You always want to bang big pharma. The problem with that, and the reason it generally doesn’t work, is that a lot of Democrats and Republicans work for big pharma. Big pharma employs hundreds and thousands of people. So those people vote, too. And whether they’re pharma representatives or doctors or whatever, banging the drug companies is a good catchphrase, but it’s a tough policy.”
“Now, what I really wanted to hear is if she’s going to go somewhere in the middle, because if the strategy is just to bash big business, bash energy, bash pharmaceuticals, bash agriculture, bash everything, she’s going to be on the left again,” O’Leary continued. “She’s not going to win the election, so my prediction is — and we’ll know more about that after the convention next week — she has to push Biden out. I mean, I understand the Heritage issue and all that, but she has to distance herself from Bidennomics. It’s radioactive waste to the voters. So if she doesn’t come out and go to the middle, she’s just going to lose, and I’m sure she knows that. It’s free fodder for Trump. I don’t want to smear Biden or be partisan, but that’s a losing strategy. What I’m waiting for is policy on everything else. Taxes, you have to hear about that. Energy, you definitely have to hear about. You have to hear about the border. And you can’t just blame everybody.”
“But the other element that still has me a little uneasy, and I think investors do too, is that she just explained the policy on a teleprompter,” he added. “She read it off a teleprompter. Will she be able to be interviewed by you or other reporters who are really going to hound her like she did in 2020 when she screwed up? Has she learned anything about how to deal with it one-on-one? That’s where the tires will hit the road.”
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