On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, sports analyst and television personality Stephen A. Smith spoke about why he believes the Democrats lost the 2024 election.
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00:00If you were to run for president, though, it would be as a Democrat or no?
00:05You know what? I'm an independent. I'm a registered independent.
00:08I would lean at who leans left. I'm fiscally conservative when it comes to my money.
00:13I'm socially liberal. I'm liberal when it comes to social issues are pretty much across the board.
00:18I believe in living and let living. So I'm a moderate, and I would say if I had to run,
00:22it would be as a Democrat, but I'm not happy with the Democratic Party.
00:26So the Democratic Party is presently constructed. It would pretty much need to be purged in order for me to assume that I would want to be associated with them
00:35and I would garner their support because I don't like the way they've gone about doing a lot of things for a very, very long period of time.
00:42And I think that I don't view Donald Trump as winning the election.
00:46I view the Democrats as losing the election, as absolutely positively blowing it with some of their actions.
00:52And that's why I think that, you know, again, if somebody was to associate me with that, the party has presently constructed
00:59where Lee's so extremely left, or at least has spent the vast majority of time doing that, oh, that is not something that I would vibe with at all.
01:06I would definitely be looking to be a game changer in that regard.
01:10What are some of the things that Democrats have been doing that have turned you off and that make you say the party needs to be purged?
01:17Who needs to be purged from it, first of all? Do you have any names?
01:19Well, I'm not going to name names. I'm not going to do that to a lot of people, but we know who the extreme left is.
01:26We know how they go about operating. We know what we lean towards when it came to open borders.
01:33We know that the spending was excessive, even though it's excessive on the Republican side as well.
01:38I think a $37 trillion budget, when Republicans try to act like it's just the Democrats, that's not true.
01:44But the Democrats certainly shouldn't be absolved from blame in that regard, certainly with identity politics, woke culture, cancer culture.
01:51I thought that that was something that ravaged our nation psychologically, because you had people literally scared they were going to lose their jobs
01:58if they pronounced the wrong pronoun for crying out loud. It got that bad.
02:03And I think that that's one of the reasons that Donald Trump is in office today,
02:06because so much stuff, a lot is focused on the individual as opposed to actual policies itself.
02:13I'm talking about what they preached and what they talked to the American people about more so than what they're doing.
02:18The kind of messages that they were disseminating was incredibly uncomfortable to listen to and to hear.
02:24And I thought that it wasn't emblematic of what most Americans are thinking about.
02:28They're trying to pay their mortgages, rent, buy food and groceries, pay gas and deal with the prices, you know, the cost of living.
02:35And they want safety in the streets. That's primarily what most American citizens are about, trying to live in peace and harmony.
02:42And that's not something that I think either side has promoted along the way.