Stephen A. Smith feels he was “misinformed” and regrets voting for Kamala Harris

“You know, I witnessed people on the left essentially attempting to scare me into voting for you. It disturbed me.

During the 2024 election cycle, Stephen A. Smith expressed his displeasure with former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris.

In the latest episode of his Blaze TV show, The Rubin Report, which premiered on Saturday, January 11, Smith, 57, sat down with Dave Rubin. The politicization of sports, the quiet majority of the right wing, the “left wing’s hypocrisy,” and other topics were discussed.

Smith and Rubin started talking about the 2024 race as the session was coming to an end, and the sports analyst took some time to express his displeasure with Harris’ candidacy. The anchor of First Take was so angry over the campaign that he even said he was coerced into supporting the California politician over Donald Trump.

It disturbed him, he said, “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.” “I may have voted for Kamala Harris because I disapproved of Trump’s behavior, but I refrained from calling him a racist. I didn’t refer to him as a Nazi.

Before he entered the presidential race, I knew Trump. We spoke over the phone. At boxing matches or basketball games, we converse. I was shouting, “Come on, y’all, you got to do better than that,” because I knew that some of the things being stated about this individual were untrue. 

Smith said that he was “misinformed” about not voting for Donald Trump, while having cast his ballot for Harris. Indeed, the commentator claimed that Stephen A. nearly switched his vote to Trump after Barack Obama claimed that misogyny was the reason Black men weren’t supporting Vice President Harris for president. The 44th president of the United States “can’t do that to [Black men],” Smith said, adding that Obama’s speech “offended” him and that he was acting irrationally.

Stephen A. went on to say that although he accepts that racism does exist in the world, he couldn’t criticize a white American for not being concerned about the color of their political candidate, particularly if that American is having financial difficulties. According to Smith, the 2024 election is a clear illustration of how Democrats’ emphasis on identity politics has led many Americans to adopt Republicans’ right-leaning beliefs.