ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said Democrats have no one right now who could run for president in four years and said that former Vice President Kamala Harris should not even think about running in 2028.
During “The Stephen A. Smith Show” podcast, Smith shut down the idea of running for President of the United States himself after his name started polling as a possible candidate to run for the top of the Democrat party.
The host said that while he has “zero desire” to be a politician, if he also said, “If I had a really, really good shot to win, I can’t deny that it’s something I would consider.”
“Let me tell y’all something, if you’re the Democrats,” Smith said. “That is why Stephen A. Smith is in the news – because y’all don’t have anybody. Who you got? Who you got? Kamala Harris better not run.”
“She better not run. She’s not going to win the presidency in 2028!” he added. “Keep in mind — respect for her. I’m not going to disrespect the former Vice President of the United States. I will never do that, but we gotta be real about something here. When she ran for election on her own, she couldn’t make it to Iowa in 2020.”
“She ultimately positions herself [and] gets the vice presidency,” Smith continued. “They win the election in 2020. Joe Biden is feeling himself after the liberals won the midterms. And instead of being a transitional president like he promised, the man backstabbed the liberal party, and turned around and said, ‘I’m staying.’ They wanted him out.”
The sports host then turned his ire towards the Democratic party as a whole and said that Trump won because Democrats depended “on the legal system to wipe him out” instead of beating him at the ballot box.
“One of the reasons I think he won, because he was saying, ‘You can’t beat me! You’re using this to get help because you can’t beat me on your own!’” Smith said of Trump. “Who else you got? [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries?”
“I personally support Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, but I don’t know how much of a national figure he is. I already interviewed [Pennsylvania governor] Josh Shapiro,” he added. “I’m in the news because the Democratic Party is here. Dammit, lower than that. Down to the bottom. They suck right now. Horrible. Because they don’t have a voice. Where the hell is the voice?”
“That’s why Stephen A. Smith is a candidate,” Smith continued. “Who the hell told y’all I’d wanna be a Democrat? I have conservative ideas. I believe in free market capitalism. I believe in patrolling our borders. I believe in strong national security. But you are right, I’d probably be a Democrat. A moderate. A centrist leaning left.”
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