Stephen A Smith performs gorgeous U-turn on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump | EUROtoday

ESPN persona Stephen A. Smith revealed he has modified his thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump and regrets voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Smith, a long-time sports activities journalist and host of ESPN’s First Takeadvised Fox News’s Mark Levin that he doesn’t “like” the actual fact he voted for Harris again in November after defending her main as much as the election.

“I voted Democrat, and I’ve got to tell you something right now: I don’t like the fact that I did,” Smith stated.

“I don’t like what I’m seeing. I don’t want to hear about, ‘Oh we’re about the law. Nobody’s above the law’…but then you go out and you pardon your son, you try to blame everybody else for it,” he added, referring to President Joe Biden’s determination to pardon his son Hunter after he was convicted of three federal gun fees and later pled responsible to tax fees.

“I don’t want to hear about ‘defund the police.’ I don’t want to hear about, you know what this should be, open borders. I don’t want don’t want to hear this stuff,” Smith continued. “I don’t think most of the American people want to hear that.”

Levin requested the ESPN icon if he would hypothetically vote for Trump given a 3rd likelihood. Smith responded that he wasn’t going to “dismiss that” earlier than explaining why he voted in opposition to him within the first place.

“What concerned me about Donald Trump, and the reason I voted against him and voted for Kamala Harris, was because I felt that he would be divisive, that he would create chaos, because he demands such a level of loyalty and fealty to him, and that would take priority over governing our nation,” he stated.

“Having said that…if he follows through on some of the things that he has said, it’s not just about eradicating inflation, improving the economy, obviously controlling our borders, these are all things that I care about,” he continued.

“But it can’t be just about fealty to him and loyalty to him. It has to be about getting the job done on behalf of what’s in the best interest of the American people, as opposed to yourself, and not engaging in the kind of juvenile tendencies, tweeting all the time, and going after people who are pretty much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.”

This comes after Smith advised Fox News in October he would vote for many Republicans, however not the president-elect.

“I’d have voted almost for any Republican but him. Nikki Haley. Chris Christie,” Smith advised Sean Hannity lower than two weeks earlier than the election. “But not him.”

He additionally slammed Trump’s interview with the Association of Black Journalists over the summer season, throughout which the Republican falsely claimed Harris “happened to turn Black.”

However, Smith discovered himself publicly apologizing in April after going through heavy criticism for feedback he made about Black voters who help Trump.

“A lot of folks in Black America seem pretty pi***d at me right now, from friends and loved ones to colleagues, contemporaries and, dare I say, even the NAACP itself,” Smith stated in a video posted to X. “Quite a few folks were put off, if not flat out, offended after my words were interpreted as associating support for Trump from the Black community with all the legal issues he’s facing. For that, I sincerely apologize.”