Stephen A. Smith Reveals Why He Would Beat Every Dem in 2028
Stephen A. Smith, a Winston-Salem State University-trained journalist, dismisses Democratic Party fragmentation in 2028—criticizing Newsom’s (19%) inconsistent messaging, Harris’s (18%) weak campaign, Buttigieg’s (13%) limited impact, and Ocasio-Cortez’s (12%) Taiwan gaffe—while praising GOP unity. He supports prioritizing U.S. citizens over undocumented immigrants, citing strains like ER costs and job competition, especially for marginalized groups, and mocks Newsom’s Spanish outreach to illegal migrants. Though not running, he’d demand "fair airtime" debates, rejecting extremes and advocating centrist pragmatism to fix systemic failures like high-speed rail mismanagement, proving politics needs bold voices beyond partisan gridlock. [Automatically generated summary]
I think that I think that it's people recognizing that I got away with it, you know, so they wish they wish they could have gotten away with it all of these years, that kind of thing.
It really was just coming out as a background in mass communications at Winston-Salem State University and HBCU in North Carolina.
I get into the business as an intern first with the Winston-Salem Journal, then with the Greensboro News and Record, then with the Atlanta Journal of Constitution, and then back in Greensboro.
So you go into the business and ultimately you want to be a writer and what have you because you're thinking that, you know, when it comes to television, you're reading the prompter and all of that stuff.
You don't understand all the stuff that goes with it.
And I just knew that I didn't have that formal training.
So being a reporter, getting intel information, I knew that was going to be a strength that I had to lean on.
And then subsequently, you list, you know, you get in front of the microphone for television or radio.
And since you don't have that training, you're like, okay, my information will carry me.
The things that I have to say will carry me.
And it won't be held against me that I'm devoid of that Midwestern accent where you can't tell where you're from.
You'll know where I'm from the way that I speak.
And it is what it is.
And let's see where that goes.
And for some reason, folks gravitated to me because I was unapologetic and I wasn't scared to say what I thought was correct.
And I would go from there and it has stayed with me in my career ever since.
Well, first of all, I've never considered myself conservative when it came to social issues, anything outside of fiscal issues.
You know, I've always considered myself a liberal.
I'm pro-choice instead of pro-life, even though I'm not one who believes in abortion.
I don't believe in telling a woman what to do with her body.
You know, pro-LGBTQ plus, not to say that there are people, there are people on the conservative side that don't feel that way.
But for years, the Democratic Party has been more identified with that than the right.
Then when you take into account, you know, free market capitalism, national security, these things are very, very important to me.
But in the same breath, when I think about the desolate and the disenfranchised, and I think about some of the policies that have been pushed forth, at least verbally, you know, throughout the years, throughout the decades, whether it lend itself towards civil rights legislation, voting rights legislation, those kind of things, Fair Housing Act, all of those different kinds of things.
I just looked at it from the standpoint that in my household, it seemed to be more identified with the Republicans and with the Democrats rather than the Republicans.
As you move on and you grow, you learn more and more about what role Republicans played in this and how that was pretty much died down.
But I think if I'm being totally honest, David, I think the biggest thing is that, and I said this, in all honesty, to be as transparent as I possibly could be.
I had the pleasure of interviewing the late, great John McCain.
God rest his soul.
I had a show, quite frankly, on ESPN too at the time back in 2005.
And I interviewed him before he obviously went up against Barack Obama for the presidency.
And I remember when ultimately we had kept in touch periodically throughout the next couple of years.
And I remember when he had some debate against Obama.
And I just said to him one time when I ran into him at Reagan National Airport, I said, there's nothing about the GOP that says we as black people are invited.
I'm not accusing you of that, meaning him or anybody specifically, but from an optics perspective, it just doesn't look like we're a part of that party.
And I think that that goes along, that lends itself towards Democrats for the most part throughout the years viewing themselves as those that lean left as opposed to lead right because we never felt like we were part of that party.
And I think that's why I thought it resonated big time when Trump had said to a lot of folks within the African community, African-American community in 2016, when he said, what do you have to lose?
That's what he was saying because that was his way of saying, you guys have been giving them your vote for decades, and it's the truth.
Because everything that you talk about, and the way that I actually love that you still describe yourself as a liberal, because I do consider my, I'm a real liberal.
It just has nothing to do with the Democrat Party now.
So when you talk about the gay rights, let's say, or abortion, we've been kicked back to the states.
Republicans aren't really screaming about it.
You don't hear them trying to reverse gay marriage or something.
Or the fact that Trump has really shifted the party when it comes to, let's say, minorities.
It still seems to me you are more of a Republican.
He says, I'm the most conservative Democrat he has seen.
But I don't view it that way.
I view, to me, if I was in office, I would be focusing on the desolate and the disenfranchised more than I see the Republican Party doing.
I agree, and I believe in free market capitalism from a principled perspective.
But in the same breath, I do believe there are people out here who need a helping hand, who need assistance.
I do believe in entitlement programs for the disenfranchised, for the poor amongst us.
I do believe in helping to uplift the little man and the little woman and giving folks a chance at the American dream.
And I don't think that the GOP comes across nearly as much as saying that and thinking that way.
I think what they do is they say, this is our system and there's a way to capitalize it.
Go for it, y'all, as opposed to being sensitive to the fact that there's a segment of our populace that has had an advantage, that has had a step up and a step forward.
And as a result of that, you've got to scale things back to some degree to give the smaller person an opportunity, a fighting chance to have their piece of the American dream.
And I don't think that the GOP comes across as a party that's ultra-sensitive to that.
But I will say this.
I am in no way identifying myself with today's Democratic Party.
When I'm talking about Democrats, I'm talking about me being a moderate.
I'm talking about the Democrats that existed in the 80s and the 90s, the Clinton Democrats and stuff like that.
I'm not talking about this strong progressive left, you know, with some of the nonsense that they've spewed and the positions that they've taken.
Oh, no.
If I would have ever run for office, I would have listened to them at all.
Sir, let's say, for example, you know, when you had folks within the Democratic Party on the progressive side talking about transgender, obviously, that wasn't, quote unquote, their focal point, but it was something that the GOP was able to market in a fashion that would favor them.
But the bottom line is this: what the hell are you doing talking about less than 1% of the population?
Like it's a very, very serious issue.
When 13%, 0.6% of the population, which was the black community, has been giving you more than 80% of its vote since the 1960s.
How dare you do that?
How dare you come at us with that stuff?
How dare you be somebody that'll go on stage and will talk about a vote for us is against, you know, a vote for Trump is a vote against us.
Well, wait a minute.
We don't have a right to care about the economy.
We don't have a right to care about our borders.
We don't have a right to care about safety in the streets.
We don't have a right to care about the things.
If we've decided to vote based on that premise, it's really not on that premise.
It's really a vote against women.
It's like, come on now.
You can't because that's emotional blackmail and that's not taking into account the potpourri of issues that affect us as a community.
So I would be against stuff like that and I would fight against that.
And I think that what the left being pulled even further left by a small cadre of individuals that describe themselves as the progressive left.
No, because what you going to do?
You're going to vote for the right?
Who you going?
You're the progressive left.
Where you at?
You all the way.
You all the way over here.
What you going to do?
Go all the way over there.
I'm standing right here.
You're going to bypass me and go all the way over here because you didn't get what you want.
You better fly straight and get your pro.
You get yourself right.
I'm not capitulating to something like that.
We're going to do what's reasonable and what's in the best interest of the country.
That's my mentality, whether it's as a pundit or ultimately as an elected official, if some miracle happened and I decided to do that down the line.
That is how I think.
I think about looking out for everybody and I think about the important word that we throw out the window like it's not a part of the dictionary and that's compromise.
Nobody gets everything they want.
I don't know who that person is.
I don't care if it's in business.
I don't care if it's in education.
I don't care what I'll give it in politics, anything.
No one gets everything.
At some point in time, you got to be willing to sacrifice and say, okay, this person has a point.
I don't vibe with that.
But that doesn't mean they don't have a right to.
And it doesn't mean that I shouldn't try to appease them in some way.
Quid pro quo, do it for me.
I do it for you.
Let's work together to understand what a reasonable conclusion may be.
We don't have that in our politics today.
And I think the State of the Union address showed that yet again last night.
So we'll get to a couple of the clips on the State of the Union, but since you brought it up, the way, so it seems to me most of what you're saying that keeps you more on the Democrat side is related to how the Republicans perhaps in the past treated the black community.
Sure, let's, Connor, let's jump ahead a little bit to that compilation that we have of how Democrats over the last few years have been talking to black people.
I'm talking about philosophical beliefs that I may have that fall in line with some of the things that I know that they push through.
Don't talk to me.
Like, I don't get caught up in what they say acting as if I trust them.
It's just like when they bring up the word racist when they're talking about, you know, Republicans and GPU.
You know what I always say?
So I'm supposed to believe you're not.
You think I'm, didn't Robert Burke, wasn't he, was it, wasn't he representing the KKK as a Democrat out of West Virginia?
I mean, you look at Biden and what he pushed forward as it pertains to the crime bill in the 1990s, the Clintons and the role that they played in that, the incarceration of folks, you know, from a discrepancy standpoint as it pertains to how it affected blacks compared to everybody else.
You know, there's an abundance of things that we can look at the Democratic Party and raise our eyebrows about.
You have black men complaining about Kamala Harris, you know, during the 2024 election because of the inordinate amount of black men that was put in jail under her watch as she was the attorney general.
But you also have Democrats coming to her defense and saying that wasn't accurate.
I get all of that.
My point is this.
They ain't innocent on the other side.
And I don't get caught up in that.
I get caught up in, okay, philosophically, from a policy perspective, what kind of things are you pushing forward that I might favor?
This fawning and this fawning over Trump by everybody.
I mean, other than Marco Rubio, everybody that you see talking, it drives me crazy.
It's little stuff like this, but it's a big thing.
Every single person that speaks on behalf of Trump, the first word I just want to thank the great president that we have in the great future, it's all of this fawning.
It's like it's a requirement before you say hello.
You're just looking at them and say, who are you?
Are you really about doing the job or are you really about appeasing and pleasing him so you can keep your job?
What the hell is going on?
I don't have time for all of that.
So, what I'm saying to you is when I look at a guy like Donald Trump, my issue with him, not respectful, doesn't have the proper decorum, the statesmanship that I'd like from the presidency, because I believe he provokes chaos instead of galvanizing folks to come together.
That's my belief about him.
And it's very hard for me to say that because I had a good relationship with him before he was running for president.
That's why you don't hear me calling him some of the names that some of these people on the left call him.
I knew him before that, and I know a whole bunch of people from my community that knew Donald Trump before he ran for president.
We never had an issue with that man.
We didn't have an issue with that man at all.
He runs for president now, and he seems to be addicted to the get-back all the damn time.
That's why I call his second term a vengeance tour because everything is about the get-back, everything is about validating what he was proclaiming and what has happened to him.
So, at some point in time, you got to move forward.
And in the process of saying all of that, as a black man, I don't like the fact that you're trying to tell people what books we should have access to.
I don't like the fact that you're trying to dictate to us what we should study, what we should learn, what we should know and want to know about our history.
There are iniquities that took place in this country, it's happened to black people, it happened to gays and others in the LGBTQ community.
You wouldn't go up to the Jewish community and try to tell them about what they should be studying about their own history and what they should know and what they should have access to.
I'm saying when you have issues like the Smithsonian Museum issue or whatever, you bring up stuff like that.
I have a problem with it because I'm looking at an absence of sensitivity to stuff that doesn't concern you.
In the end, you as a white man shouldn't be telling black people what we should be studying about our history or what we should have access to and stuff like that.
These culture wars that are taking place, I'm uncomfortable with him with that stuff.
And I don't view him as somebody that really, really prioritizes appeasing the black community by showing us what you're bringing to the table for us.
I think any benefits that may occur is a byproduct of him doing what he wants to do for his base of people as opposed to my community.
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So, all right.
So, all of that leads you to potentially, let's say, being more in the Democrat camp, which if you were going to run, if somebody was going to run for president, that's the place to go because check out these numbers from Salman.
So, when I watch that, to me, that makes way that makes more of a rationale for why, if you were ever going to run, or if anyone is thinking about running, you run as a Democrat because they've got nobody.
You know, I've told people this on many, many occasions.
I'm not an official not on the issues.
There's a lot more that I have to learn.
I can be corrected at the drop of a hat, I'm quite sure.
I'm a conscientious observer.
I'm an American citizen.
I'm a voter.
Who cares?
I've been very blessed and successful to have the career that I have, and I ain't about to give up this money and what I've achieved to run for the presidency of the United States.
That is where I come in.
But it is tempting when I see those as the candidates because I don't believe any of them have a chance of winning.
We can go down the list.
Gavin Newsom, here you are, and we saw what you just said, whether people believe it or not, or you know, because you got folks on the left trying to defend them.
Crime, homelessness, affordability, environment, debt in California, please.
You got to convince me.
Oh, so you want us to let you run the country, but we see what's happening in California.
Good luck with that.
Kamala Harris, that's where you come from.
You didn't even want to run for the governor's seat in California.
You should have been able to win that one.
You didn't want that.
Okay, we saw what happened during the election.
You had 107 days.
Biden put you at a disadvantage.
That's all true.
But your interview on The View sealed your fate when they asked you, is there anything that you would do differently?
And then by the way, you're like, no, I can't think of anything.
Nobody's letting that go.
And back to Gavin Newsome.
Everybody talked about you need to move to the center to some degree.
Look at it that way.
What do you do?
Two weeks later, you're on scene on TV talking about when it comes to transgender transitioning from male to female, even if they're children, you really have no problem with that, without them doing such a thing without parental consent.
I've said this to numerous people who would listen.
If my child is underage, you can't come to my child to tell my child to walk down the street to the store without my permission.
How in God's name do you think you can do something that serious without parental Houston?
You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a This is, of course, a very long-standing policy of the United States.
And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.
And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.
Listen, when Mitch McConnell, the former Senate majority leader, froze, ladies and gentlemen, we were wondering whether or not he had a stroke.
We know he's old.
We know there are health issues.
That is a vibrant young lady that is AOC.
Okay.
That was not a health issue.
You were not prepared.
You did not know what you were talking about and the world saw it.
Now, if they had walked up to you on center stage, you know, if they had walked up to you while you walk in the streets of the Bronx and just stuck a camera and a microphone in your face and you were caught off guard, that would be different.
No, you flew across the world.
You flew across the ocean to attend this conference.
What we're saying is most of the time, most of the time, everybody ain't into the weeds like somebody like you are.
That's why when you talk to somebody like you and others, you got to know what you're talking about or admit that you don't.
You see what I'm saying?
Which I, you know, you, Megan Kelly, a bunch of others.
I respect everybody because it's like, yo, you got to know your stuff.
And if you don't know, admit you know.
Don't walk around lying and trying to hide like you know something you don't know.
So I get that part.
But when we talk about respect of somebody, what we're saying is you're listening to policies.
You're listening to people spew their rhetoric about whatever their beliefs are, whatever their ideology is, et cetera.
And you see the passion and the fervor and the fight that they have within themselves to go after the opposite side, trying to derail what we may perceive as them striving to do in the best interests of our community.
That's all we mean by that, okay?
When you get into the weeds of policy and what have you, yeah, it could be a bit challenging because sometimes what they're saying may not make any sense when you really, really go through it.
I feel like this is the moment to me at State of the Union when Trump basically said, hey, if you're in this room and you are for America, stand up and for American citizens.
And this again gets me to the first question, which is if someone like you who is a moderate, again, putting aside some of the issues, if you were actually running, putting aside who the competition would be, to me, it's obviously a Republican because you would have stood up.
Elizabeth Warren stood up when he talked about, you know, insider trading issues within the United States government with elected officials and how that needed to be eradicated.
She stood up to support that.
Why wouldn't you stand up to support what he said?
And you have to anticipate he's playing them like a fiddle.
He knows they're not going to stand up.
He knows how bad it's going to make them look.
I would have called this bluff.
And I would have stood up and I would have said, you're damn right.
Because the bottom line is, you got to remember, he's the key words that came out of his mouth.
He said American citizens.
So there are plenty of people who are American citizens who are of the same ethnic consent, you know, sent as the immigrants and migrants are.
You know, you have people who are Hispanics.
You have people who are wherever they're from.
It could be Venezuela, it could be Guatemala, it could be Mexico, it could be anywhere, you understand, who are American citizens.
So when he said American citizens and American citizens first, first of all, that's the right thing because it should be American citizens first, number one.
And number two, you know, for people on the left, some of them, not most, not all, but some of them coming out and saying that what he said was racist.
And we got to be mindful of what we mean when we say that.
When people are coming into this country undocumented and they're crossing our borders illegally, it costs us money.
You're using the emergency room as your own medical health care plan, you know, jobs and stuff like that and how it could potentially have a detrimental effect.
And you know where I'm from.
I believe when white folks catch a cold, black folks catch pneumonia.
It's always worse for us.
So anything that works to the detriment of our country is going to work doubly worse for the black community.
And I look at it from that standpoint.
How could you, so I'm looking at it and I'm saying, I can't, I can't vibe with that kind of thinking.
Sure, you could stand up.
Sure, you could sit up there and applaud his position on that.
Or just stand up and don't applaud, just to let him know.
I don't agree with you, but I agree with what you just said.
There are ways to handle it, but the Democrats don't seem to have a plan because they're all over the place.
You got some people that showed up to the State of the Union.
You got others that had their own protests going on, their own, you know, whatever it is that you want to call it.
And they're not on the same page.
They're a house divided.
And say what you will about the GOP, but they're not a house divided.
And the Democrats are.
Where I would come in, where I would be a problem, is that in the end, when you talk about populism, it's about your impact with the voter.
And no matter what these politicians want to say, they ultimately gravitate to those that have the impact with the voters on their side of the aisle, that is.
And if I were able to pull that off, if anybody was able to pull that off, then you're going to fall a line if you're committed to making them do so.
And that's exactly what I would do because I'm not telling you that I'm not going to vote for you or with you on various issues.
I'm just saying you don't get everything you want and you're not pushing me further left.
We're going to come back to the center and get some degree of normalcy back into our country's politics.
I'm significantly different than Federman because I believe that, you know, my passion, the manner in which I articulate my thoughts, and the feistiness that I would have with me.
See, Fetterman don't want to fight.
He's a good man who cares about this country, is committed to doing his job, and he's a reasonable, normal person.
And I get that part.
But he ain't trying to fight, had his health issues or whatever.
I'm in the best shape I've been in in 30 years.
You know, I'm 58 going on on 38, if not 28.
I feel great.
I'm energized.
I'm hyped.
And most importantly, the fight don't bother me.
It's something that I'm accustomed to every day.
I debate every day for a living.
It's what I do.
So my attitude is: you want some, come get some.
If that's how it would be.
Now, again, I don't have any desire to give up my money.
So that's not happening.
And I'm not, don't plan on me running for office, but I'm just telling you: if there was a way for me to be on that debate stage and I didn't have to give up my money to be on that debate stage, my brother, you look out.
They just had this thing with Stephen Colbert and James Hillarico with Texas and all this stuff, fair airtime, equitable airtime, that kind of stuff.
I get pulled off the air immediately because of that.
And I wouldn't get a check until I'm out of the race.
That's not happening.
I'm not doing that.
But if you said to me, hey, you could show up on a debate stage, you understand, and still do your job.
Wait a minute now.
I'm telling you, I would look into the camera and announce to you that I'm running for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America.
You know, it sort of reminds me a little bit of Vivek in a way because I don't think he really thought he was going to be president, but I thought he wanted to get on the debate stage.
Well, in all seriousness, what is it that you're going to do?
You have a record as the governor.
You have a record as the former vice president or who was a former senator, who was a former attorney general.
You have a record as a former transportation secretary.
You have a record as a representative out of New York City for the United States, for the House of Representatives.
I don't have that.
There's plenty of things for me to point to.
What are you going to point to other than my attitude or some bogus headlines they try to put in there about to create negativity about me and all of this stuff?
You're not going to do a damn thing.
All you're going to have to do is come at me and you're going to have to come at me and show that I have no business thinking that I can play in this lane.
And I'm saying to you, you're absolutely right.
I probably don't have any business playing in this lane.
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You're not bullshitting them and it's free and it's real.
I want to show you this clip from NPR with Newsom, and I think it gets to the heart of what is just so awful about him.
He does have a point when he brings up. the fact that he considers himself a multifaceted person.
We're not one-dimensional.
You can get in front of, I've seen you sitting here talking to me, but I've also seen you on other shows when you've been interviewed by Pierce and others.
And that's not the person that I saw talking to me.
You know, moments call for different elements of your personality to come oozing out.
So I do agree with him and understand that part.
The fact that when he's communicating about a president that calls him new scum instead of by his name when he's a sitting governor in the United States, that can wile you up.
That can agitate you.
I do understand those things.
But in the end, you should, if you're Gavin Newsom, pay attention to people saying they don't trust your authenticity.
They don't trust that you're real.
They trust that you do what's politically expedient in a moment and they don't feel they can trust you.
That's a big, big deal that you want to overcome.
I know for me, for better or worse, you can trust me to be me.
You know, for better or worse.
Some people hate me, some people love me.
And when I give a damn, I'll be the struggle to let you know because it is what it is.
You know, my mother taught me this a long time ago.
It's a hell of a lot easier for you to live with your truth, for others, to force others to live with your truth than it is for you to live with your own lies.
You ain't got time for that.
It's too much energy.
And she was always right about that.
And I've always held on to that because me being true, I've always said I'm one of the most emotionally honest people you will meet.
What you see is what it is.
I don't have time at all to entertain those kind of games.
And do I believe that that would bode well for me in politics?
Sure, I believe.
Now, I've never tried to govern.
I've never tried to be an elected official.
I don't know this stuff, man.
You know, I told somebody the other day and they said there was a great idea.
I said, you know what I would want to do?
If I was in office, I'd want to have two people for every single cabinet position, a Democrat and a Republican, figure it out and come to me with the best idea.
All I know is that I moved down to Florida about a year and a half ago, and this is the best move that I've made in quite a long time in my life.
I am in heaven.
The weather, I moved down here for two reasons, weather and no state income taxes.
And I was unapologetic for it.
You know, I still have to go back and forth between New York and L.A. because of obligations, but make no mistake about it.
I'm very, very happy here in Florida.
I believe that it's been a great state.
It's been very, very, very good to me.
I almost want to sound like Sammy.
So Betty, Betty, good to me.
I mean, I'm loving it.
You know, so it doesn't bother me at all.
But when you hear stuff like that, it's like, listen, people are entitled to their own passions.
And there is this innate belief almost that the rich are getting away hand over foot because of loopholes that have never been closed and stuff like that.
I get that part.
But in the end, you know what?
As a nation, we're over $38 trillion in debt.
Somewhere along the way, clearly there's been mismanagement.
And when you're constantly going to the American people and you're saying singing the same old song and dance every four years, we're not buying it anymore.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
Somewhere along the way, would you mind handling the budget?
Would you mind doing your job?
The fact is that hasn't been done.
And it's real easy to point the finger.
These folks that are rich, they manage a budget.
They manage a payroll.
You understand?
They hire folks, et cetera.
They know a thing or two about curbing spending.
They know a thing or two about handling a budget.
And so, you know, you look at it from that standpoint and you say, wow, you're blaming them when in fact, it's really, really you because you can't do what they do every day.
I've been paying boatload of dollars in taxes for years.
I'm not even saying it should be less.
I'm saying somewhere along the way, you should show me that you know what you're doing if you're insisting on taking more of my money.
Why is our deficit what it is?
Why can't you manage a budget?
Why don't you tell us where the money is being allocated to?
We can't have a situation where in California, everybody's raving or going crazy about how there was supposed to be some rail that was, you know, some railroads that were built, billions of dollars in debt, and we don't see evidence that it's been built.
I mean, stuff like that can't happen.
We can't have a mom Danny taking over as mayor of New York and talking about taxing the rich, taxing the rich, taxing the rich, but then saying, if Hoku doesn't do this, if she doesn't sign off on doing this, I'm going to have to raise your property taxes, which will ultimately trickle down to the middle class and lower.
The fact is, that goes against what you said.
Suddenly you get into office and you realize what the deficit was.
They're not engaging in a snowball fight with you.
They don't want to be bothered.
If they're law enforcement and that's not something that they were entertaining, then assault would be the way to go.
Now, obviously, if you just hit them with some sort of snowball or whatever the case may be, I mean, you didn't harm them or anything.
That's entirely different.
So there's different levels of assault.
But nevertheless, not harm, but harmony.
But nevertheless, exactly.
The act is the act itself.
And the law enforcement wasn't capitulating to that kind of situation.
Then we have to take that into consideration.
And if they felt it was assault, then damn it, it was assault, plain and simple.
But once again, this is something that comes back to bite Mamdani because he wasn't considered the strongest supporter of the NYPD as he was running for office.
When you took it, when you listened to some of his rhetoric in the past, some of the things that he had said about the police didn't seem to be that keen on being supportive about them.
I don't recall whether or not he was talking about the funding police, but I believe there are dozens of people.
I believe he did say that.
So because that's a reality, you know, when you see that kind of stuff, it sort of seems dismissive about concerns for law enforcement.
And that is not a good position for him to be in, particularly when they're not getting raises or anything like that, because you don't have the money to take care of them, nor did you appear inclined to do so even if you did.
So all of those things definitely work against him.
And that's the kind of thing that can turn officers against you.
And with all the problems that New Yorkers have, the last thing we need is an apathetic or indifferent police department.
Which they've already, as you probably know, they've already had to lower the standards to get people in, the physical standards, because people don't want to do it.
That's right, because you don't want to be subjected to that.
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What I would tell you is that if you're trying to cater to that particular audience, speaking their language doesn't hurt.
So that's not a crime.
You know, they're voted.
There are folks in the Hispanic community that are voting.
And when you talk in their language, it makes them a bit more receptive to you or receptive to you in terms of wanting to listen to what you have to say.
And what parent doesn't want, you know, free preschool for three, four years, et cetera, et cetera.
But I always harken back, and it's very important that I bring this up because I remember when some people asked me when you became so moderate, somewhat of a centrist per se, when did that happen for you?
And I can't remember the year, but I remember when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were in office.
And I never forget, as long as I live, a reporter was talking to Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States, Carrez Asole, he was talking to him about the polls were showing blah, He looked at the reporter and said, so.
And I was eating my cereal.
I was like, what?
Because I had never seen a vice president do that before.
He said, so?
And then he said, you didn't elect us to follow your lead.
You elected us to lead, to do what we believe is in the best interest of this country.
And that's exactly what we're doing.
And then the reporter elaborated a little bit about something with Planned Parenthood and stuff like that.
And she tried to accuse him of being against that.
He said, I'm not against that at all.
I'm against you asking the government to pay for it.
And all of a sudden, it opened my eyes and reminded me what all of this is really, really about.
Most people in this country have a live and let-live attitude.
Live your life, et cetera, et cetera.
So what's the uproar about?
The uproar is about the fact that you're going into the pockets of the American people and asking them to subsidize it.
And when you do that, now you've got them up in the Tizzy because you're saying this is where your taxpayer dollars is going to.
And when that happens, all of a sudden, that gives everybody the right to speak up.
And say, wait a damn minute here.
How is that possible?
I know of a young lady that's a friend, that's a friend of mine that got in a car accident in LA and literally needed to be treated, et cetera.
And her bill was very, very exorbitant when she got treated at the emergency room and stuff like that.
And she was trying to get on the phone, get some assistance, et cetera, et cetera.
They literally told her, if you were a migrant, it would be easier to take care of you.
But the problem is, is that you're an American citizen, so you have to wait in line.
And you're being told you have to wait in line in the United States of America in favor of somebody who's not an American citizen who crossed the border illegally that is going to be treated better because it's a sanctuary city that is LA and a sanctuary state that is California.
How do you think that's going to vibe with most Americans?
I don't care what city you're in.
I don't care what state you're in.
Basically, what nation you're from, if you are a native of that country and you're being told you have to wait because they're favoring somebody who's not a native, who crossed the border illegally, you're going to have a problem with that no matter who you are or where you're from.
So, understanding those kind of things is what I'm talking about when I'm talking about common sense.
You can't have stuff like that happening and think that there's not going to be major, major noise and friction and polarization in the country when you let something like that happen.
There is no way that that's going to fly.
I think most Democrats know that.
The problem is they've surrendered to the extreme progressive left because they're fearful that they will lose their power positions if they don't.
I think that's what the problem is more so than anything else.
And that's what's going on in our nation's capital.
I don't know if anybody can handle it, but we got to try.
We got to try.
We can't sit idly by and do it.
There are a lot better things you can do with your time to doing what you're doing with this podcast, but it's important because you know that you're making a difference.
You got millions of followers, millions of listeners listening to you, spew what you spew because they know you know what you're talking about and they know you care.
And the same is going to be with me and the same is going to be applicable to everybody else.
We all got to do our part, whatever that part is.
What we can't do is sit idly by, mind our own business and say, hey, we ain't getting involved in any capacity because the fact is, whether we like it or not, we're all involved because all of our lives are being affected, whether we like it or not.