ESPN host Stephen A. Smith admitted that he and others who voted for Kamala Harris in November’s election really feel like “rattling fools,” throughout an look on Actual Time With Invoice Maher on Friday.
Smith made this declaration when discussing comparisons between Harris’ marketing campaign and Barack Obama’s marketing campaign in 2008.
The sports activities pundit argued that the truth that Harris was not nominated by way of a professional main, and the truth that she carried out so poorly throughout her quick stint within the 2020 Democratic main, made her undesirable to voters.
Harris dropped out of the 2020 main in 2019, earlier than even reaching the Iowa caucus.
She by no means obtained a single main vote earlier than being anointed the nominee in 2024.
“Kamala Harris, who didn’t resonate throughout the primaries in 2020, couldn’t even get to Iowa, all of the sudden is the Democratic nominee, you then roll as much as the conference in Chicago and everyone is like ‘She’s a rockstar!’ So it’s like ‘How’d that occur?” Smith stated.
“Sure I voted for her, lots of people voted for her, however ultimately, we find yourself feeling like rattling fools, as a result of we supported it, we fell for the okiedoke as they are saying. In the event you had a main, the chances are she wouldn’t have been the Democratic nominee.”
Smith has been a harsh inside critic of the Democratic Celebration throughout and after the 2020 election.
Throughout Friday’s look on Maher’s present, he scolded liberals for selecting to not marketing campaign on points that the American folks had been most involved about, whereas admitting that Trump did, and was the nearer candidate to the middle of the political spectrum.
“Right here’s the deal: the person was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American folks nonetheless stated, ‘He’s nearer to regular than what we see on the left,’” Smith stated.
Throughout an interview with Fox Information Channel’s Sean Hannity days after Election Day, Smith insisted that the outcomes had been a referendum of the Democratic Celebration.
“I feel that in mild of these outcomes we have now to have a look at this election as a referendum on the Democratic Celebration. And America’s saying we’re not feeling the place you’re, we’re not feeling the place you tried to go, we wish no a part of it, we’re not having it – and so they made their selection and all of us have to just accept it,” he stated.
Throughout an interview on “The Will Cain Present” on the Thursday after the election, Smith delivered a scathing critique of the Democratic Nationwide Committee and its message forward of Election Day and pointed to transgender points as certainly one of its weak factors.
“It’s such a powerful tilt to the progressive left the place we’re speaking about transgender points and tradition wars and id politics and all of these items. We’re sick of all of that. That makes whole, whole sense to me, and I’m good with it, despite the fact that I didn’t vote for [Trump]. I’m not as bowled over and feeling like nothing however gloom and doom and the world is coming to an finish as a result of the individual I voted for didn’t win,” Smith stated.
Smith has stated a number of occasions that he would contemplate operating for public workplace. After the outcomes of the election, he has been one of many few figures within the liberal media to embrace the result of Trump’s victory and has been closely essential of left-wing figures like Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Jimmy Kimmel of their portrayal of Trump.
Smith additionally didn’t rule out a attainable presidential run for himself throughout an interview on “The View” the week after the election.
“I’ve no want to be a congressional determine or a senator. However if you happen to got here to me and also you instructed me I had a professional shot to win the presidency of the US of America, I might undoubtedly contemplate it,” he stated.