'Nobody's going to stomach that': Major supporter Dave Portnoy sounds warning for Trump
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a Donald Trump supporter who recently bemoaned losing some $20 million in the tanking stock market, told CNN's Dana Bash that he'll stick by the GOP until the midterms.
Portnoy, who sold his wildly successful site and now discusses sports and culture on his podcasts, is worth as much as $150 million.
"This is who I voted for and time is going to bear it out," Portnoy told Bash. He added that Trump was playing "an extremely high risk" game of poker with the current economic situation.
"If it turns out, great — it will be a great move, and one of the great things that he's done," Portnoy said. "If not, I think the voters will speak at midterms."
A surprised Bash said, "There is a long time, Dave, between now and the midterms, particularly when you think about how quickly things have changed, just even in the past couple of weeks with the economy. You're okay? You can just stomach this until the midterms?"
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Portnoy answered, "If we drop 5% every day from here to the midterms, no, I can't stomach that. Nobody's going to stomach that. If this flattens out and we don't have gigantic drops...yes, I can handle that for a long time."
Portnoy added, "I'm hoping his 'art of the deal' comes to fruition. But no, if you're asking me, can I wait a year-and-a-half with the stock market tanking 5% every day, or 4% or 3%? No, I don't think anybody can."
Portnoy said he would be willing to support Democrats in the future.
'One thing about me which drives me crazy — I vote for Trump, I support him — I was never like some crazy MAGA guy. I look at each candidate and I choose who I like....I am not somebody who would just strictly vote based on Republican or Democrat. I vote on the people running, how I think they speak to me, the issues that are important to me," he said.
Portnoy added that with his podcasts, which appeal to mostly young men, he gets "more hate and more extreme hate from the left than I've gotten from the right. And this is before people knew what side I was on. I find the left, personally, far more intolerant than I do the right."
