Posted on 04/15/2025 2:02:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Pete Buttigieg. Wes Moore. Gavin Newsom. Gretchen Whitmer. Stephen A. Smith!!!???!!??
Since the November election, the ESPN commentator has been bashing Democratic leadership for losing to Donald Trump and floating himself as a potential 2028 candidate and savior for the party and the country. And Smith’s dalliance with politics isn’t one-sided. Pod Save America, Fox News, CNN, ABC News, the New Yorker and other major outlets have sought out Smith for his first takes on immigration, tariffs and other issues.
President Stephen A. Smith? Has everyone gone crazy? Not completely. Many nonpartisan pundits and Democrats themselves think the party needs a leader with some of Smith’s attributes: a reputation for being plainspoken; some distance from the official Democratic Party and liberalism; a connection to younger men and men of color. Smith almost certainly isn’t the answer, but the buzz about him is rooted in real questions that the Democratic Party is grappling with after a second defeat to Trump.
Democrats aren’t known for being unified on much of anything, but the party’s progressives and centrists agree on a lot about what went wrong politically for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Everyone in the party thinks Democrats need to do more to reach Americans who don’t get their political news from outlets such as The Post and CNN. That’s partly why Newsom and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear have started podcasts, and virtually all Democratic U.S. senators are releasing videos of themselves talking about policy in their offices. There is deep concern among party strategists and operatives about Harris doing significantly worse with Black men and Latino men than Hillary Clinton and Biden in prior presidential campaigns.
Harris’s initial refusal to do interviews, and then her wooden performances in them, has Democrats...
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Don’t forget Jasmine Crockett.
She’d make a great Thuggette in Chief wanna-be.
Do not underestimate SAS
Trump needs to say he would have lost in ‘16 if Bernie had gotten the(rightful) nomination over Hillary-not-so-slow Bern. These communists need to be out front-it’s better for us.
She was a babbling idiot with a nervous schoolgirl's laugh and nothing but word salad blather to say. She knew she was incompetent and knew she had been found out. "Wooden," my ass.
The only "wood" was on Willie decades ago.
For that reason alone I think DeSantis should be the next nominee. Executive experience-big state. Put JD on SCOTUS-40ish years of age. No squish in his background. Our bench is young and full.
Is the public gonna go for the gift-of-gab empty resumes? Worked with Obama.
They need to make AOC their headline leader. The GOP should support this and give her every opportunity to speak.
I don't think so.
I think everyone is already tired of vulgar, loud mouthed black woman yelling and attacking people all the time.
Then the Democrats were looking the their version of Joe Rogan, and Michelle Obama's podcast can't get an audience?
Now Stephen A. Smith is going to be the Democrats' next Donald Trump?
LOL!
-PJ
Stephen A. would actually be a formidable candidate. He’d peel away a lot of the young male support that won Trump this last election.
Strike Three!
SAS irritates a lot of blacks and he’s considered a sellout. I think he and the left overestimate his own potential. DeSantis or Vance would clean his clock in a debate.
Nah - their version of Trump is still Gavin Newsom. He’s the best they are going to be able to do, with the factions they need to please. And he’s taller than J.D. Vance. :)
They have no solutions. They just whine until they get their way.
If they don't rally behind Jasmine Crockett they are a bunch of racists and misogynists.
You don’t find someone like Trump— people like him just show up and go.
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