Stephen A. Smith makes stunning admission about Democrats' defeat: 'A blind man could see it'

Describing Donald Trump's electoral triumph implicit Kamala Harris arsenic a 'thorough a** kicking,' ESPN prima Stephen A. Smith issued a brutal appraisal of the Democrats' show successful 2024.

'Ain't nary mode astir it, Bill,' Smith told comedian and speech amusement big Bill Maher connected the latest occurrence of Club Random. 'You cognize much authorities than me, but a unsighted antheral tin spot the Democrats got their a** kicked.'

Not lone did the Republican campaigner triumph 312 of 538 full electoral votes, but Trump besides won the fashionable ballot aft being named connected 49.988 percent of each ballots, according to The New York Times' latest figures.

To the progressively governmental Smith, Trump's triumph resulted from a amended information process wrong the Republican party. 

Whereas the billionaire world tv prima easy won Republican enactment successful 2016, 2020 and 2024, the Democrats' information process was analyzable by Biden's doomed determination to question re-election. The President's belated reversal of that choice, and the party's shadowy pivot to Vice President Kamala Harris, didn't assistance matters, according to Smith. 

'Trump's been the Republican nominee since 2016,' Smith said. 'It is wide that is who conservatives privation successful the White House. That's who they supported. They didn't springiness a damn astir the 34 indictments. They didn't springiness a damn astir 2 impeachments. They didn't springiness a damn astir each the ineligible issues and each the lawfare that the Democrats engaged in. They said: ''Joe, that's who we want.'''

The Democrats, Smith said, 'greased the skids' successful settling connected Harris, adding that the enactment did thing akin successful 2016 when Hillary Clinton got the information implicit Bernie Sanders amid wide infighting connected the left.

To Smith, Clinton won the information successful 2016 with the assistance of the enactment due to the fact that it was perceived to beryllium her 'turn.'

'That's for the voters to decide,' Smith said. 'And a batch of times the Democratic party seems arsenic though they've got their claws successful the mix.'

But the astir egregious determination by the Democrats was Biden's determination to tally for re-election aft erstwhile positioning himself arsenic a transitional person for the party's adjacent procreation of candidates, Smith explained. 

'Your a** was gonna beryllium 82-years-old successful the White House,' Smith said, remarking connected Biden's age.

'Oh, truthful you're looking guardant with a feline who is gonna beryllium 82 and would permission bureau erstwhile he's 86?' Smith asked. 'Really y'all? I'm sitting determination like, ''You got to beryllium s***ting me.''

'I knew I wasn't voting for Trump.,' Smith continued. 'I knew that wasn't gonna happen. I was saying to myself: ''What are you thinking? What are you thinking?'''

The result, arsenic Smith illustrated with boxing analogies, was an 'a** kicking.'

'Similar to Terrence Crawford-Errol Spence Jr,' Smith said, referencing Crawford's knockout triumph implicit his welterweight rival successful 2023. 'Yup, that works. It was that benignant of a** kicking.'

Smith's governmental crook has coincided with his ongoing declaration negotiations with ESPN. Previously the New York Post reported Smith earns $12 cardinal annually with the Worldwide Leader, but he's rumored to beryllium successful the marketplace for a nine-figure deal.

'[Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Dak Prescott conscionable signed a declaration for $240 million,' Smith told the Who's Talking To Chris Wallace amusement successful September. 'He's making $60 cardinal a year. Has won 2 playoff games successful 8 years.

'I've been fig 1 for 12 years. I'm sorry; successful our respective industries I win, and I'm afloat alert of what I'm worth, and I volition ne'er apologize to that for anybody.'

Although helium admits the Democrats person a 'weak bullpen' erstwhile it comes to candidates, Smith did archer Maher that helium supporters Maryland Governor Wes Moore.