Stephen A. Smith stopped by The View today, and I honestly can’t help but wonder… how does he have time to do everything that he does?
The sports personality stays very busy nowadays, starting off his day with First Take and then recording his personal, non-ESPN-affiliated Stephen A. Smith Show in the afternoons. He also helps hosts too many other shows on ESPN to count, and can still apparently find time to stop in and chat with the women on The View.
Now I won’t get too much into The View, because there’s (far) more important things to get to. But I will point you towards his most recent visit on the day time talk show where the sports host said he blasted the ladies on the panel about their entire election narrative while also letting them know that he would consider running for president in 2028.
This episode, The View brought on Stephen A. Smith, who has been more outspoken about politics in recent years. And they obviously brought up President Donald Trump’s election. Joy Behar asked if the majority of the American people choosing him as the Commander in Chief was a “mandate,” and Smith suggested that it was:
“It is a mandate, and I’m gonna explain why. And I don’t mind the question, but let me be clear. I’m not a supporter of Trump. I’m a supporter of truth and the facts… and here’s the facts. The man won every swing state, he increased his numbers in terms of voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of Blacks, Latinos, and young voters. He increased those numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of counties shifted to the right… that’s a mandate.”
Just as Stephen A. comes to a sports debate with all of the information necessary, he backed up a figurative trailer’s worth of statistics to support his view. He rattled off a couple right there, and then continued by referencing all of the numbers that were at his disposal to leave the panel of The View close to speechless by affirming that Trump’s election was a mandate:
“In 2020, Trump didn’t the popular vote. He didn’t win the electoral college vote. A matter of fact, Republicans hadn’t won the popular vote since 2004. But they did this year. 20 years after they last won the popular vote, they won the popular vote. They won the electoral college vote. The man won every swing state. I don’t understand how people can look at that and say, ‘There’s no mandate.’ There’s a mandate.”
To which Behar laughably said:
“Well, it’s a different definition of a mandate I guess.”
Are you not listening Joy? Stephen A just laid out a TON of reasons why it IS a mandate… there’s no alternate “definitions” here. Once again, this is why you lost… you refuse to live in reality and just dismiss facts as “well, I guess we just have different definitions.” No, there’s one definition… accept it, move on, and maybe come to the table in 4 years with a better strategy.
Behar attempted to bounce back from her first question by asking if Black and Latino voters might soon regret voting for Trump, and Smith conceded that as a possibility. He also admitted that he hasn’t liked some of the things he has seen from the president, but that at the end of the day, the American people spoke with how they voted last November:
“In the end, what it comes down to is this: for the American people, in their eyes, it wasn’t about him. They were voting against what the Democrats were throwing in their direction…
I want somebody to step up and recognize that man in the Oval Office, whether you like it or not, is potent. He’s coming, and he wins. You’ve got to find a way to beat him. This way is not the way.”
The conversation between the co-hosts of The View and Stephan A. Smith continued with the sports personality clarifying his “Trump was voted for because he was viewed as closer to normal than anyone else from the Democratic party” quote, and yet, The View just can’t seem to wrap their mind around it.
You can hear more from Stephen A. Smith (you can just fast forward through The View panel talking if you wish) in the video below:
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