Stephen A. Smith Saw Trump's Win 'Coming From A Mile Away' | The View

ESPN host and political commentator Stephen A Smith calls it like he sees it and he joins us at the table with his view of the election 2024 and where we go from here our soon to be neighbor right over there please welcome Stephen A Smith hello ladies Stephen A your thoughts on the election as it just went down I was surprised at how lopsided it was I was not surprised by the outcome I saw the outcome coming from a mile away um you have to take into account listen we we respect our President Joe Biden

but here's the reality he got into office he promised to be a transitional president to be a stop Gap to pave the way for somebody else to come on board into of the midterms it was supposed to be a red wave it did not happen the Democrats was flying high he felt the momentum because he was the incumbent and instead of leaving he decided to stay yeah when he decided to stay the Democrats were in a quandry because they were expecting him to leave now he wants to stay they're around him they're seeing the fast

ball has dissipated to some degree they're seeing that he's not what he used to be and what do you do about it you grease the skids there's no primary for him to experience you let him him go on stage June 27th and clearly he was exposed 3 and 1/2 Weeks Later he's forced and compelled to step away because donors to the Democratic establishment they were not going to support that and then kamla Harris is inserted I don't blame her one bit I thought she did a phenomenal job she went all out she did what she

could but you can't overcome that kind of situation remember there's two c-words that are incredibly important in America capitalism is one competition is another because it's a metaphor for capitalism in a lot of people's eyes because you were inserted even though you were the vice president and it was the Biden Harris Administration you had folks who are independent I'm not talking about those on the right I'm not talking about those on the left just Independents who said wait a minute she didn't experience a primary either and the last time we saw her in a primary

was 20 was four years ago and she didn't even make it to Iowa they used that as an excuse to point to her level of inexperience then you got the war in Russia and Ukraine you got the Israeli Palestinian conflict Hamas and Hezbollah and all of that stuff and you had Trump using codes look do you want her where is she where's the interviews where is she showing herself where's the tough questions where's the interrogation and he leaned on certain things and you knew people were going to gravitate to that because right now as divided

as our country is fear comes associated with that and because that fear was there he fed off of it yeah and people bought it hookline and S and that's why he's the president and Stephen let me ask you because I agree on all counts um there's a lot to unpack of what kind of went wrong for Democrats here I think a factor is the working-- class feeling left behind not reaching out to rural Americans but what did what do you identify as what Democrats got wrong and it seems like you agree Biden maybe should have

stepped aside he definitely should have stepped aside I said it a year ago I was on camera everybody was getting on me I said a yearo he need to step aside I you took some heat you remember though that he said does everybody remember he originally said he was just going to do it for four years that's what I brought up right and did he did you think that once you know who stepped in he said well there I there's nobody we don't have anybody well the point is is that it's not about who you're

going up against when you know you're not what you used to be and see this is where covering Sports put put me at a distinct Advantage I cover people every day where it's time for you to go but you're holding on and you don't want to leave people who cover the World of Sports are accustomed to seeing that all the time and so now here you are to answer your question directly you are the left you leaned and you were a prisoner to the extreme left in a lot of people's eyes well guess what most

of America doesn't operate on the fringes whether your left or your right you're relatively Centrist you believe in compromise negotiation working with one another nobody gets to get everything they want the problem is those on the fringes continuously push for you to get everything you want they're not about getting they're not about getting things done they're about getting their way and if they're not going to get their way they're about complaining and griping about it because they understand that when you are operating based off of grievance that's usually what provokes you to get to the

PO and that is why they don't mind feeling the grieved and displaying and disseminating that kind of message because they know people are going to gravitate to that and as a result that might get them to the poll you thinking you're going to get what you want as a result of it and in this particular case the Republicans were right they work you think the Republicans are sort of an extreme Fringe party no I I don't I don't I don't I don't think that they're an extreme Fringe party I think that they're operating against those

they believe are extreme on the left like for example when you talk about the lgbtq Community I'm I'm a I'm a fiscal conservative and I'm a social liberal I'm fiscal with my dollars I ain't apologizing for not wanting to pay high taxes to anybody I'm not apologizing for that right but outside of that I'm pretty liberal Live and Let Live okay but you had folks on the left that were introducing some things when we when we got in the whole transgender issue and they were talking about bathrooms or they were talking about males transitioning to

females and competing against girls in sports and stuff like that these are is % of the population understand that but you know what but see but I think that's where the mistake is made you're saying it's ridiculous I don't disagree with you yeah but most of the the voters out there don't think like that but they but that means they don't have the information okay but 90% of the voters don't have the information if you out there busting your tail and make ends meet and to pay your bills and you're going to work every day

and you got a family to take care of and you got in New York City you're getting stuck two hours of your day you're stuck in traffic you know what I'm saying you got a whole bunch of stuff to go through you don't have time to know what you and I know may you need to listen to the news when you're in traffic though again I not unformed or you listen to stuff that's going to take you away from the things that brings down your spirit and that's unfortunately what most voters are doing let me

ask you this how you want to speak no no no sorry sure because how would Stern says that he wasn't confident that the country was ready to elect the first female president because he knows quote how men talk behind closed doors about us so so we're very privileged to have a great guy here today yeah tell what do men say about us behind well first of all say it to our I don't hide so no worries there here's the deal um I respectfully disagree with Howard Stern uh only from the standpoint that I wish he

had been more specific why don't you say white men because let me tell you something about about black men we love our mamas I know that we love we love and and and we and we Revere black women and when we're trifling we know it's us it's not them you understand so when he's saying that okay well then let's talk about white men we have a white power structure that still exists in this country today I understand the white populace in this country was over 85% at one time it's now dipped to about 57.4% the

white power structure is still in place so when we talk about misogyny when we talk about chauvinism when we talk about women not necessarily being empowered well who's in a position of power to surrender some of that power it's white men so I think that when Howard Stern was talking I can't speak to what white men are thinking I can tell you this much black men we Revere women we don't have any problem looking at a woman as a leader I can tell you that exactly next question