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During the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” ESPN Star Pundit Stephen A. Smith He blew up the Democratic Party for coming off as a stranger and less viable choice in the last presidential election than President Trump and all his baggage.
Speaking with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and the show’s host, Smith scolded liberals for choosing not to campaign on issues the American people were most concerned about. He admitted that Trump, despite his flaws, legal and political condemnations, did it, and that is why he is currently in the White House.
“Here’s the deal: The guy was charged twice, he was convicted of 34 felonies, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,'” the sports expert told to which Maher replied, “Exactly.”
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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith told HBO’s Bill Maher that liberals’ failings made them less of an electoral choice than Trump, a man who has been impeached twice and convicted of 34 felonies. (Screenshot/HBO)
Since Trump’s victory in November, Smith has been vocal about the left’s failures leading up to that moment.
During an interview With Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity days after Election Day, the ESPN star said, “I think in light of those results we have to view this election as a referendum on the Democratic Party. And America says no.” We’re feeling where you We’re not feeling where you tried to go, we don’t want any part of it, we’re not having it, and they made their choice and we all have to accept it.”
In Friday “real time”Smith reiterated that Trump’s victory was making the left because they focused on marginal issues rather than major ones like the economy and border security.
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“It’s closer to normal,” he continued. “Why? Because something that belongs, when you talk about the transgender communityfor example, and you talk about issues that belong to less than one percent of the population: the Democratic Party seemed a priority more than the other issues.”
The expert noted that even if Trump campaigned on some issues that he couldn’t achieve because of opponents in government, he at least appears to have kept his promises.
Smith said: “So when he shows up in week one on Capitol Hill, he says, ‘This is what we’re going to do through an executive order,’ even though it’s going to be taken down through the courts and what have you, He says, ‘I kept my promise.'”
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US President Donald Trump administers the oath of office to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/AFP via Getty Images)
The commentator contrasted this with the left, whom he accused of failing to convince the American people they could follow on key issues.
“Then you turn around and look to the left and say, ‘What promises did you keep?'”
He added: “What resonated with the voter? What voter can look at the Democratic Party right now and say, ‘There is a voice for us, someone who speaks for us, who increases capitol hill and fight the fights we want fought on our behalf.”
“They didn’t do that,” he declared, adding that that’s why Trump is in office and they aren’t.”
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