CNN’s Abby Phillip pushed back against Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary’s suggestion that Democrats “circumvented democracy” by selecting Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee.
During a segment of CNN’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” the Canadian businessman argued that Harris was chosen as the nominee rather than being “democratically nominated.”
“This is the second time the Democratic Party has circumvented democracy,” O’Leary asserted, sparking a raucous rebuttal among the roundtable of panelists on the show.
“That’s not true,” several panelists said simultaneously in response.
“Yes, it is,” O’Leary continued. “Hillary Clinton was chosen, and she had Bruce Springsteen too, and what happened to her?”
“Kevin, Hillary Clinton won a primary, OK,” Phillip retorted.
After contesting that no other Democratic candidates could compete with Hillary during the 2016 election, O’Leary asked, “So did Kamala Harris win a primary?”
“Kevin, I know that you are from Canada,” Phillip stated, “But the primary process in this country is not in the Constitution. The …