Stephen A. Smith voiced his frustrations with Vice President Kamala Harris and former Barack Obama during the 2024 election cycle. Smith, 57, sat down with Dave Rubin for his Blaze TV show, The Rubin Report, with the new episode premiering on Saturday (Jan. 11). The conversation covered the politicization of sports, the right wing’s silent majority, the “left wing’s hypocrisy,” and more.
As the conversation came to a close, Rubin and Smith began discussing the 2024 election, with the sports pundit taking the time to voice his frustrations with Harris’ campaign. In fact, the First Take host was so frustrated with the campaign that he implied that he was guilted into voting for the California-based politician over Donald Trump.
“When you hear people talking about practical, practical things, and then I saw folks on the left basically trying to guilt me into voting for you, you know, it bothered me,” he admitted. “I might have ended up voting for Kamala Harris because I didn’t like how Trump acts, but what I didn’t do was call him a racist. I didn’t call him a Nazi.”
“I knew Trump before he ran for president. We talked on the phone. We talk at basketball games or boxing events. I knew this man, and so some of the things that were being said about him I knew were not true, and I was saying, ‘Come on y’all, you got to do better than that.’”
While Smith voted for Harris, he admitted that he was “misinformed” about not voting for Donald Trump. In fact, the pundit asserted that after Barack Obama stated that misogyny was the reason Black men weren’t voting for VP Harris for president, Stephen A. almost changed his vote to Trump. Smith went on to say that Obama’s rhetoric “offended” him, found that he was being nonsensical, and asserted that the 44th president of the United States “can’t do that to [Black men].”
Doubling down, Stephen A. then claimed that while he acknowledges that racism does exist in the world, he couldn’t knock a white American for not caring about the race of their political candidate—especially if that American citizen is struggling to make ends meet. Smith opined that Democrats’ focus on identity politics has caused a lot of Americans to move to the right-leaning ideals of Republicans, with the 2024 election being a prime example.
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