ESPN’s Sports Analyst Stephen A. Smith claims he feels “like a damn fool” after supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election against President Donald Trump. He further states, “We fell for the okey-doke.”
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During a recent broadcast of ‘Real Time With Bill Maher,’ Stephen A. Smith left Bill Maher stunned after admitting that he feels “like a damn fool” for voting for Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump.
Stephen A. Smith’s criticism stemmed from Kamala Harris’ lack of success during the 2020 Democratic primary. The former VP dropped out before the Iowa caucuses, resulting in her never securing any primary votes. During the 2024 presidential race, Harris never went through the primary process and was automatically deemed the Democratic nominee after former President Joe Biden nominated her to the seat after he dropped out of the race, with pressure from the Democratic Party.
On the show that aired on Friday (January 24), Smith said, “Kamala Harris, who didn’t resonate during the primaries in 2020, couldn’t even get to Iowa, suddenly is the Democratic nominee. Then you roll up to the convention in Chicago, and everybody is like, ‘She’s a rockstar!’ So it’s like, ‘How’d that happen?'”
Smith continued to admit, “Yes, I voted for her. A lot of people voted for her. But in the end, we end up feeling like damn fools because we supported it, we fell for the ‘okey-doke,’ as they say. You know she didn’t—if you had a primary, the likelihood is that she would not have been the Democratic nominee. And you can’t say that about Trump and his side. You can’t!”
While on Bill Maher’s show, Stephen A. Smith not only came for Kamala Harris’ lack of success in the 2020 and 2024 presidential races, but he also scolded Democrats as a whole. He said, “Here’s the deal: [Donald Trump] was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left.'”
He continued, “Why? Because, when you talk about the transgender community, for example, and you’re talking about issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population, the Democratic party came across as if that was a priority moreso than other issues.”
He went on, “So when he shows up on week one on Capitol Hill, he says, ‘This is what we’re going to do through an executive order’ — even though it’s going to be shot down through the courts. He’s saying, ‘I kept my promise.’ Then you turn around and look at the left and you say, ‘What promises did you keep?'”
He added, “What voter out there can look at the Democratic party at this moment in time and say, ‘There’s a voice for us, somebody who speaks for us, that goes up on Capitol Hill and fights the fights that we want them fighting on our behalf?’ They didn’t do that and that’s why their behinds are home, and that man is back in the White House. He’s doing what he said he was going to do. He promised you he was going to do these things and he walked into office and that’s exactly what he’s doing.”
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