Kevin O’Leary calls Kamala Harris a ‘broken’ candidate with ‘no compassion’ in brutal on-air criticism.

Billionaire investor and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary delivered an unsparing critique of Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, suggesting the failed presidential candidate’s loss in November resulted from longstanding political improprieties.

During a panel discussion on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” O’Leary said the glaring mistake by Democrats came early when they positioned Harris as the nominee without holding a primary.

“They made an excuse of $317 million in kittens. They kept the same campaign manager and said we’re going to anoint this tainted, broken candidate who was irrelevant in her running for president,” he said. “Lost in 2019. As you detailed, complete loser in 2020 . I could never articulate anything. There was no compassion for the people and her protectors.”

O’Leary also pointed to Harris’ appearance on “The View” as a turning point in the campaign.

He suggested that the women on the show wanted Harris to win and threw her “softball” questions to bolster her public image; in that interview, Harris could not say what he would have done differently from Biden in the previous four years, tying him even more strongly to the unpopular president.

“She was so weak as a candidate that she could not answer that she would do something different. It ricocheted around the world. She was done. They will never do this again,” he added.

O’Leary has been an outspoken critic of Harris and the Democrats leading up to the 2024 presidential election.

He said on “CNN NewsNight” in October that after watching her town hall the night before, Democrats should have concerns about how she ended up being the nominee.

O’Leary said he was struck by how “just 90 days ago, [Nancy] Pelosi went to Biden and said, ‘You have to go,’ and convinced him to do so. He made the decision, and he actually asked her, and we’ve learned this now: ‘Is she the right person to run this house?’ He questioned it. He could have said, ‘We have to run a process for me to make this move,’ but they decided not to. I don’t know who they are. it was her [Barack] Obama? Was it Pelosi? I don’t care who it was.”

After using a stock-picking analogy, O’Leary asserted that Harris’ lead in the nomination “is the second time the Democratic Party has bypassed democracy.”

Fox News’ Alexander Hall contributed to this report.