Barstool founder Dave Portnoy called an “emergency press conference” and suggested the Democrats sent President Joe Biden out to debate because they “want to whack him.”

In a video he posted on Friday on X, Portnoy told his millions of followers that he didn’t think it was an accident that the Democrats agreed to let Biden debate former President Donald Trump, suggesting it was the party’s way of removing him from the 2024 presidential ticket. The post has since gone viral with more than 1.5 million views at the time of this publication.

“That was as good as Joe Biden could ever do in a debate. Before it started, I tweeted out ‘how are the Democrats allowing Joe Biden to do a debate?’” Portnoy said, playing clips of Biden, calling him “a vegetable” and saying he “belongs in a nursing home.”

“The Democrats had to know that,” he added. “Why would you agree to a debate with Biden. At this stage, the earliest debate of all time, when you know he’s gone. When you know he can’t speak.”

Emergency Press Conference – The Dems Sent Biden out For Slaughter pic.twitter.com/SxwzJb5cKr

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 28, 2024

“When you know he’s a vegetable,” Portnoy continued. “Because they want to whack him. Because they know he is not going to be the nominee. I said this ten months ago, 11 months ago when [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom was in China being an idiot playing basketball with these little Chinese kids…”

The Barstool founder said at the time that Newsom was going to run for president and questioned in the clip on Friday why else would a governor take a tour of the world.

“Because he knew and the Democrats knew Joe Biden is gone. He’s gone,” Portnoy said. “And they need somebody else. And this is the scary part, like I said, Gavin Newsom is poison.”

“Gavin Newsom is everything that is wrong with every politician in the world,” he added. “He’s the guy who ruined California, strictest lockdowns during COVID.”

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He then talked about how Newsom closed public beaches, forced everyone to wear a mask even outside, and then was caught on camera out having dinner with friends at the French Laundry in Napa Valley with no mask in sight.

“Rules for thee, not for me,” he added. “Gavin Newsom, he is going to be the Democratic [nominee], and I’m telling you right now, the guy is poison.”

Earlier in the video, Portnoy talked about how everyone has said how “how bad Joe Biden looked.”

“And I’m not talking Republicans and the Trump people. I’m talking the Democrats, CNN, just shoveling dirt on him,” Portnoy said. “Being like, ‘He didn’t do what he had to do. He looked weak. We may have to make a change.’”

In the clip, the founder of Barstool played several clips of members of the media reacting to Biden’s disastrous debate performance. One person in the video was CNN’s Chris Wallace, who said, “I think the question answers itself, he wasn’t capable of doing any better than he did.” CNN host Van Jones was another who added, “That was painful. We’re still far from our convention and there is time for this party to figure out a different way forward if he will allow us to do that.”