Stephen A. Smith Admits Regret After Kamala Harris Vote In 2024 Election

The 2024 Presidential Election was such a weird one that we'll be performing a postmortem on it for years to come. A lot of people will regret the decisions they made when they stepped into the voting booth that day, and Stephen A. Smith is one of them.

To his credit, Smith is willing to call balls and strikes to a degree when it comes to politics, and he has no problem admitting that he made an error when he voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Smith was a guest on The Sage Steele Show, and Steele asked him why he had previously said he regretted voting for Harris.

"I am completely and adamantly against one-party rule. If you're in the White House, I want the other party in the House or the Senate," he said. "I don't like total complete dominion on one side of the aisle. I'm just very, very fixated on that. I can't stand that."

Stephen A. Smith admits he regrets voting for Kamala Harris in 2024, citing misplaced faith in bipartisan leadership and frustration with Democrats after the loss. (Getty images)

Alright, I can understand that, but Smith said that, despite Harris securing the nomination without a primary and lacking historical evidence of viability, he believed she would be more willing to work with the other side.

"So I know all of that, but I also believed that she was the kind of person that, if the power existed in one house of Congress, if not both, that she was somebody that you could get to acquiesce and work across the aisle in order to get things done," he continued. "That was my belief."

Of course, acquiescing is easy when you don't really have any kind of policies you want to fight for. 

It's like getting brownie points for letting your wife pick the restaurant when, truthfully, you were so hungry you didn't care where you went and would have eaten at Golden Corral if you had to.

But after the election, Smith knew he had messed up.

"And then when I saw how things were unfolding and how out in the clouds the Democratic Party was even after they lost the election, I said, ‘There is no hope.’"

"I said, 'I don't know what the hell I was thinking about believing that y'all would get it because you still don't get it. You really, really don't.'" Smith said. "Trump — you bring up the indictments, you bring up his behavior, you bring up all of these different things, and America still said, 'He's more normal than y'all,' and you still don't get it. 

"And I thought you'd get it, but you didn't get it. So, I lost all faith."