ESPN's Stephen A. Smith admits he feels like a 'damn fool' for voting for Kamala Harris

https://nypost.com/2025/01/26/sports/espns-stephen-a-smith-admits-he-
feels-like-a-fool-for-voting-for-kamala-harris/

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith admitted that he and others who voted for 
Kamala Harris in November’s election feel like “damn fools,” during an 
appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday. 

Smith made this declaration when discussing comparisons between Harris’ 
campaign and Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008.

The sports pundit argued that the fact that Harris was not nominated via a 
legitimate primary, and the fact that she performed so poorly during her 
short stint in the 2020 Democratic primary, made her undesirable to 
voters.

Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary in 2019, before even reaching the 
Iowa caucus.

She never received a single primary vote before being anointed the nominee 
in 2024.

“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 said. 

“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 
okiedoke as they say. If you had a primary, the likelihood is she would 
not have been the Democratic nominee.” 

Smith has been a harsh internal critic of the Democratic Party during and 
after the 2020 election. 

During Friday’s appearance on Maher’s show, he scolded liberals for 
choosing not to campaign on issues that the American people were most 
concerned about, while admitting that Trump did, and was the closer 
candidate to the center of the political spectrum. 

“Here’s the deal: the man 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,’” Smith said. 

During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity days after 
Election Day, Smith insisted that the results were a referendum of the 
Democratic Party.

“I think that in light of those results we have to look at this election 
as a referendum on the Democratic Party. And America’s saying we’re not 
feeling where you are, we’re not feeling where you tried to go, we want no 
part of it, we’re not having it – and they made their choice and we all 
have to accept it,” he said. 

During an interview on “The Will Cain Show” on the Thursday after the 
election, Smith delivered a scathing critique of the Democratic National 
Committee and its message ahead of Election Day and pointed to transgender 
issues as one of its weak points. 

“It’s such a strong tilt to the progressive left where we are talking 
about transgender issues and culture wars and identity politics and all of 
this stuff. We are sick of all of that. That makes total, total sense to 
me, and I’m good with it, even though I didn’t vote for [Trump]. I’m not 
as taken aback and feeling like nothing but gloom and doom and the world 
is coming to an end because the person I voted for didn’t win,” Smith 
said. 

Smith has said multiple times that he would consider running for public 
office. After the results of the election, he has been one of the few 
figures in the liberal media to embrace the outcome of Trump’s victory and 
has been heavily critical of left-wing figures like Michelle Obama, Oprah 
Winfrey and Jimmy Kimmel in their portrayal of Trump. 

Smith also did not rule out a possible presidential run for himself during 
an interview on “The View” the week after the election.

“I have no desire to be a congressional figure or a senator. But if you 
came to me and you told me I had a legitimate shot to win the presidency 
of the United States of America, I would definitely consider it,” he said.


-- 
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and 
eradicated.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden 
fiasco, President Trump.  

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.