Kevin O’Leary: Obama, Pelosi and Schumer will have NO influence on Dems in 4 years

One shark’s take on the election included an argument on how New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s loss of power was “good” for the Democratic Party.

Gender ideology, abortion on demand, and open borders had come to occupy the Overton Window through which leftist politicians looked, within years of accepting traditional marriage, deportations, and only rare, safe, and legal abortions.

The radical sprint away from the center appeared to run into a wall with Vice President Kamala Harris and the down-ballot results playing out poorly for the party, leading entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary to suggest the country would be all the better for it.

Joining Fox News for their Election Night coverage, Mr. Wonderful of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” exposed the power players behind the scenes and put them in front of the cameras as he argued ahead of the called victory for former President Donald Trump that the pendulum could start to swing back to the right.

“The influences of a Schumer or a Pelosi, or a movie star or an Obama deciding to anoint somebody — those guys are gone in four years. They won’t have that kind of influence,” said O’Leary as he contended sending Harris packing would prove the “greatest night the Democratic Party ever had…”

Speaking as an investor, he brought up economic policies that had been bandied about during the vice president’s campaign and how working with the White House went beyond party lines.

“I care about policy. And when I hear policies coming out of a party that are so twisted against the American way of life, like basically taxing capital gains that are unrealized — that’s not America. Or price controls — that’s not America,” he told the Fox News panel.

“It would be good for them to lose tonight. It would reset and reboot and get that party back to the center,” O’Leary went on. “It would be good for them. They may not want to hear that.”

After the likes of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, and more celebrity elitists had endeavored to sell Harris as the future of the party, the businessman wasn’t the only one knocking the costly enterprise.

During his victory speech after beating three-term Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Tuesday, Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno (R) alluded to the nine-figure price tag that had come with trying to protect the seat, and ultimately the Democratic Party’s control of the upper chamber, when he said, “Chuck Schumer, if you’re watching — thanks for the help in the primary, but you’re fired, buddy.”

Nearly $470 million had been committed toward the Buckeye State for naught as the GOP also succeeded in flipping West Virginia after incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin decided not to seek re-election.

The Washington Examiner wrote on the race in Ohio, “Brown allies also seized on Moreno’s off-the-cuff remark that women over the age of 50 don’t need to worry about abortion access. The latter attack reflected a Democratic bet that abortion access remains a motivating matter two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”

“Meanwhile, Republicans federalized the race with the economy and immigration. A third concern,” stated the Examiner, “transgender politics, also featured heavily in advertising. In Ohio, GOP super PACs spent so heavily on the idea that Democrats would let biological males play in female sports that Brown released his own commercial calling the accusation false.”

Though many agreed with O’Leary’s analysis, there remained doubt as to whether the left’s takeaway would actually be to pull back to the center.

Kevin Haggerty

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