ESPN big Stephen A. Smith admitted that helium and others who voted for Kamala Harris successful November's predetermination consciousness similar "d--- fools," during an quality connected Real Time With Bill Maher connected Friday.
Smith made this declaration erstwhile discussing comparisons betwixt Harris' run and Barack Obama's run successful 2008. The sports pundit argued that the information that Harris was not nominated via a morganatic primary, and the information that she performed truthful poorly during her abbreviated stint successful the 2020 Democratic primary, made her undesirable to voters.
Harris dropped retired of the 2020 superior successful 2019, earlier adjacent reaching the Iowa caucus. She ne'er received a azygous superior ballot earlier being anointed the nominee successful 2024.
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"Kamala Harris, who didn't resonate during the primaries successful 2020, couldn't adjacent get to Iowa, abruptly is the Democratic nominee, past you rotation up to the normal successful Chicago and everybody is similar ‘She’s a rockstar!' So it's similar ‘How’d that happen?" Smith said.
"Yes I voted for her, a batch of radical voted for her, but successful the end, we extremity up feeling similar d--- fools, due to the fact that we supported it, we fell for the okiedoke arsenic they say. If you had a primary, the likelihood is she would not person been the Democratic nominee."
Smith has been a harsh interior professional of the Democratic Party during and aft the 2020 election.
During Friday's quality connected Maher's show, helium scolded liberals for choosing not to run connected issues that the American radical were astir acrophobic about, portion admitting that Trump did, and was the person campaigner to the halfway of the governmental spectrum.
"Here’s the deal: the antheral was impeached twice, helium was convicted connected 34 felony counts, and the American radical inactive said, ‘He’s person to mean than what we spot connected the left,’" Smith said.
During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity days aft Election Day, Smith insisted that the results were a referendum of the Democratic Party.
"I deliberation that successful airy of those results we person to look astatine this predetermination arsenic a referendum connected the Democratic Party. And America’s saying we’re not feeling wherever you are, we’re not feeling wherever you tried to go, we privation nary portion of it, we’re not having it – and they made their prime and we each person to judge it," helium said.
During an interrogation connected "The Will Cain Show" connected the Thursday aft the election, Smith delivered a scathing critique of the Democratic National Committee and its connection up of Election Day and pointed to transgender issues arsenic 1 of its anemic points.
"It’s specified a beardown tilt to the progressive near wherever we are talking astir transgender issues and civilization wars and individuality authorities and each of this stuff. We are sick of each of that. That makes total, full consciousness to me, and I’m bully with it, adjacent though I didn’t ballot for [Trump]. I’m not arsenic taken aback and feeling similar thing but gloom and doom and the satellite is coming to an extremity due to the fact that the idiosyncratic I voted for didn’t win," Smith said.
Smith has said aggregate times that helium would see moving for nationalist office. After the results of the election, helium has been 1 of the fewer figures successful the wide media to clasp the result of Trump's triumph and has been heavy critical of left-wing figures similar Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Jimmy Kimmel successful their portrayal of Trump.
Smith besides did not regularisation retired a imaginable statesmanlike tally for himself during an interrogation connected "The View" the week aft the election.
"I person nary tendency to beryllium a legislature fig oregon a senator. But if you came to maine and you told maine I had a morganatic changeable to triumph the presidency of the United States of America, I would decidedly see it," helium said.
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