The 2024 presidential election is still 14 months away but ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith knows who he would vote for to be the next President of the United States.
Despite the fact that Smith has been accused of being a low-key conservative, it’s not Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. Smith has previously said another Trump presidency would be “an anarchy being run and an anarchist running it.”
Smith also doesn’t seem interested in voting for current U.S. President Joe Biden and he thinks the Democratic Party is “stupid” for pushing the 82-year-old to run for President once more.
“You look stupid enough because you call yourself progressives, and you’re riding the coattails of a guy that’s going to be 82 years old during an election year, begging him to run for reelection,” Smith said of Democrats on the latest episode of his podcast. “You call yourself progressives and the best you can do is an 82-year-old that’s already in office, an 82-year-old incumbent.”
Instead, Smith says he would likely make his pick for California Governor Gavin Newsom if the Democrats would decide to back him instead.
“I personally believe if it wasn’t for these damn high taxes out here in California, I would be a Gavin Newsom supporter,” he said. “When he got interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News I’ve never seen, since Biden has been present, anyone on the liberal side that has been more forceful, more convincing, and more defying against the right than Gavin Newsom. And more effective. He was brilliant.”
“But then I come out to California and these damn taxes, they invent ways to take your money in this state. So that might be problematic. But I got to tell you. I still approve of that. Better than you rely on an 82-year-old candidate,” Smith said.
It doesn’t seem like Smith will get his wish but his political opinions continue to be very interesting.
