Within the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith addressed whether or not he regretted backing Democrats.
“I voted Democrat, and I received to inform you one thing proper now, I do not like the truth that I did. I do not like what I am seeing,” Smith mentioned on “Life, LIberty & Levin,” Saturday.
Since President-elect Trump’s historic win in November, the Democratic Celebration has performed the blame recreation with accusations swirling over who’s in charge for Vice President Harris’ loss.
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Whereas some have pointed to Harris, others have referred to as out President Biden for his failed re-election marketing campaign and poor approval score.
Criticism of the president has continued within the last weeks of his time period, particularly over his resolution to pardon his son, Hunter.
“I do not wish to hear about, ‘Oh we’re in regards to the legislation. No person’s above the legislation. No person’s above the legislation.’ However you then exit, and also you pardon your son, and also you attempt to blame all people else for it,” Smith instructed host Mark Levin.
Biden issued a sweeping pardon for Hunter on Dec. 1 after he said on document a number of instances that he wouldn’t pardon him ought to a jury convict his son.
Smith’s qualms with the Democratic Celebration, nonetheless, prolong past Biden’s controversial pardon. The ESPN persona echoed sentiments from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders calling out the celebration’s platform and coverage focuses.
“I do not wish to hear about defund the police. I do not wish to hear about, you understand what? There must be open borders. I do not wish to hear these items. And I do not assume many of the American folks wish to hear that,” Smith mentioned.
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Following the election, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pinned blame for Harris’ loss on the Democratic Celebration for “abandoning” the working class, sparking a rebuke from former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi.
“It ought to come as no nice shock {that a} Democratic Celebration which has deserted working class folks would discover that the working class has deserted them. Whereas the Democratic management defends the established order, the American individuals are indignant and need change,” Sanders posted to X in November, accompanied by a press launch on the election outcomes. “They usually’re proper.”
Smith instructed Levin he’s “now not occupied with… listening to a bunch of fearmongering to inform us who we should not vote for.”
“Why do not you give you a plan that tells us why we should always vote for you?” he posited.
“We’re not about America solely, however being about America and prioritizing what is going on on on this nation with the desolate and the disenfranchized and all people else in between, and looking for the most effective pursuits of what it’s for America… that’s not a criminal offense for an American politician or commander in chief or senator or congressional determine to have that mentality,” he continued.
“If Donald Trump, JD Vance, Byron Donalds, Marco Rubio, or a bunch of different Republican candidates coming down the pike, that is the form of message that they will put forth, I am down for it. I am open-minded sufficient to make it possible for they entertain that from a coverage perspective. That is what I would like for the American folks. That is what I would like for this nation.”
Smith conceded he might “fairly presumably” see himself voting for Trump if the president-elect might run once more, however he mentioned Trump would nonetheless should “show loads.”
“What involved me about Donald Trump, and the rationale I voted towards him and voted for Kamala Harris, was as a result of I felt that he could be divisive. That he would create chaos as a result of he calls for such a degree of loyalty and fealty to him. And that may take precedence over governing our nation. That was my concern,” he defined.
“It may’t be nearly fealty to him and loyalty to him. It needs to be about getting the job performed on behalf of what is in the most effective pursuits of the American folks versus your self, and never participating within the form of juvenile tendencies, tweeting on a regular basis and going after people who find themselves actually…irrelevant within the grand scheme of issues. You do issues like that, and also you present that you are the grownup within the room, I do not assume anyone might dismiss Donald Trump at this explicit second in time.”
Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
