( NewsNation) — Democratic megadonor John Morgan joined “ CUOMO” on Monday night to discuss the failed Harris-Walz campaign, claiming former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee to replace President Joe Biden.

Already, Democrats had pressured Biden to drop out of the race because his polling numbers plummeted after the first presidential debate. Harris replaced Biden in the hopes of winning back voters who were skeptical of a second Biden administration while also appealing to a wider swath of citizens.

The leadership of outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign said that internal polling never had her ahead of President-elect Donald Trump. After President Joe Biden began lagging heavily behind Trump in the polls in June and July,

MSNBC executives said the network was “unaware” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign gave $500,000 to a nonprofit organization owned by the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the network’s hosts, when he interviewed her before the election.

Kamala Harris' campaign reportedly paid half a million dollars to Al Sharpton's nonprofit shortly before she took part in a friendly interview with the civil rights activist and MSNBC host — but a network spokesman said they were unaware of the payment.