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During the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the ESPN star Stephen A. Smith he criticized the Democratic Party for turning out to be a weirder and less viable choice in the last presidential election than President Trump and all his baggage.
In a conversation with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and the host of the show, Smith chided liberals for choosing not to campaign on the issues of greatest concern to the American people. He admitted that Trump – despite his flaws, legal convictions and impeachments – is and that is why he is currently in the White House.
“Here’s the deal: a man has been impeached twice, convicted of 34 felonies, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,'” the sports pundit said, to which Maher responded , “Exactly.”
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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith told HBO’s Bill Maher that the liberals’ failings have made them less of an electoral option than Trump, a man who has been impeached twice and convicted on 34 counts. (Screenshot/HBO)
Since Trump’s victory in November, Smith has been vocal about the left’s failures leading up to that moment.
During interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity a few days after Election Day, the ESPN star said, “I think in light of those results, we have to look at this election as a referendum on the Democratic Party. And America says we don’t feel the way you do, we don’t feel where you tried to go, we don’t want a part of it, we don’t have it – and they chose and we all have to accept it.”
On “Real Time” Friday.Smith reiterated that Trump’s victory was a credit to the left because they focused on side issues rather than major ones like the economy and border security.
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“He’s closer to normal,” he continued. “Why? Because something that relates—when you talk about transgender communityfor example, and you’re talking about issues that affect less than one percent of the population — the Democratic Party has come across as if that’s a higher priority than other issues.”
The expert noted that even if Trump campaigned on some issues he couldn’t achieve because of opponents in government, at least he appears to have kept his promises.
Smith said, “So when he shows up on Capitol Hill the first week, he says, ‘We’re going to do this through an executive order’ — even though it’s going to be thrown out in court and what have you — he says, ‘I kept my promise.'”
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U.S. President Donald Trump is sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his inauguration ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/AFP via Getty Images)
The commentator contrasted this with the left, which he accused of failing to convince the American people that it could follow through on key issues.
“Then you turn around, look to the left and say, ‘What promises did you keep?'”
He added: “What resonated with voters? What voters out there can look at the Democratic Party at this point and say, ‘There is a voice for us, someone who speaks for us, who goes forward Capitol Hill and fights the battles we want fought in our name.”
“They didn’t do it,” he declared, adding that’s why Trump is in power and they aren’t.
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