Stephen A. Smith Admits He Was Foolish to Vote For Harris

 ESPN host Stephen A. Smith admitted he voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee for president in 2024, and said he now feels foolish for doing so.

During Smith’s appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he compared former President Barack Obama’s popularity to that of Harris and said, “Obama resonated more because the people chose him to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States of America as opposed to somebody backdooring their way into the position.”

Smith then called out the other guest on the show, California Democrat Representative Ro Khanna, for being one of the many Democrats who had touted former President Joe Biden’s mental sharpness, the Daily Caller noted.

“I know that you supported Biden, obviously you spoke about his mental acuity and all of that other stuff. But we all saw what we saw,” Smith told Khanna, referencing the disastrous debate over the summer between President Trump and then-President Biden.

“Kamala Harris, who didn’t resonate during the primaries in 2020 — couldn’t even get to Iowa — suddenly is the Democratic nominee,” he added. “And then you all go, and then you roll up at the [Democratic National] Convention in Chicago, and everybody’s like, ‘She’s a rockstar!’ So, it was like, wait a minute, how’d that happen? How’d that happen? I don’t know how that happened.”

“So, you are looking at all those things and you are saying, Yes, I voted for her. A lot of people voted for her. But in the end, we end up feeling like damn fools,” Smith continued, per the New York Post. “Because we supported it. We fell for the okiedokie as they say. You know she did. If you had a primary, the likelihood is that she would have not been the Democrat nominee and you can’t say that about Trump. You can’t.”

The ESPN host then pointed out that, in the end, the “American people still said ‘He’s [Trump] closer to normal than what we’re seeing on the Left,” despite the fact that he’s been impeached by Congress and convicted in the court system. 

“Why? Because something pertains, when you talk about the transgender community for example, and you talk about issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population, the Democratic party came across as if that was more important than the other issues,” Smith said.

“Then you turn around and look at the Left and you say ‘What promises did you keep?’ What resonated with the voter out there?” he added. “What voter can look at the Democrat party 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 [Democrats] didn’t do that. That’s why their behinds are home, and that man is back in the White House,” Smith continued, noting that in week one Trump’s already fulfilling campaign promises. “He’s doing what he said he was going to do.”