Dave Portnoy says Trump faced ‘tag team match’ in debate, rips ABC moderators for not being harder on Harris
Barstool founder Dave Portnoy believes Donald Trump faced a “tag team match” that didn’t appear to be “great” for the former president while debating Kamala Harris on Tuesday night.
“I don’t think this is going well for Trump so far at all,” Portnoy posted on X. “Probably doesn’t help that it’s a tag team match, but yeah not great.”
Portnoy, 47, a vocal Trump supporter and one of the many celebrities who spoke out after President Biden withdrew his bid for reelection in July after one term in office, blasted ABC’s moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for not pressuring Harris as much as they did Trump.
“Shouldn’t the moderator cut her off and say answer the question,” Portnoy posted on X, criticizing Harris for beating around the bush on answering if the US economy was better off under the Biden administration.
“Is the economy better off or not? Answer it.”
Portnoy also slammed Muir and Davis for not asking Harris to clarify if she met Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The former president brought up how Biden “sent [Harris] in to negotiate with [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelensky and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, and she did, and the war started three days later, and that’s the kind of talent we have with her,” referring to the veep being deployed to Europe in February 2022 to try to prevent the Kremlin invasion of Kyiv.
“Vice President Harris, have you ever met Vladimir Putin?” Muir asked her in a follow-up question, to which the Democrat presidential candidate cited it as one of Trump’s “lies.”
Instead, Harris answered that she had met with Zelensky “over five times.”
“Have you met Putin? Simple question. No answer. No clarification from moderators,” the Massachusetts-born entrepreneur wrote in his final post of the night.
Portnoy appeared on Fox Business Monday and confirmed he was voting for Trump in the 2024 election.
“I’m voting for Trump,” the Barstool Sports founder told Varney & Co. host Stuart Varney.
“I don’t know that I’d call myself a Trump guy. If I thought there was a candidate that was better, I would be open to having that. I wouldn’t have voted for him in the Republican primaries, but I’m voting for him now.”
Portnoy was brought on the show to discuss a New York Times op-ed about what effect Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris would have on the election — to which the self-proclaimed Swiftie said there was no “upside” for her getting involved in politics.
“I mean, to each their own. If you feel like you have to get involved, morally, or whatever the reason might be — I’ll never criticize someone for talking about politics, but she’s never really gotten in that forum, so I’d be surprised if she did it,” Portnoy said.
Swift announced on Tuesday, toward the end of the debate, that she endorsed Harris and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, shocking few who have followed her political leanings in the past.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” she said in a post to Instagram.
