ESPN's Stephen A. Smith says he feels like a fool for voting for Kamala Harris

Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary in 2019, before even reaching the Iowa caucus. She never received a single primary vote before being anointed the nominee in 2024.

"Kamala Harris, who didn't resonate during the primaries in 2020, couldn't even get to Iowa, suddenly is the Democratic nominee, then you roll up to the convention in Chicago and everybody is like 'She's a rockstar!' So it's like 'How'd that happen?" Smith said. 

"Yes I voted for her, a lot of people voted for her, but in the end, we end up feeling like d--- fools, because we supported it, we fell for the okiedoke as they say. If you had a primary, the likelihood is she would not have been the Democratic nominee." 

Smith has been a harsh internal critic of the Democratic Party during and after the 2020 election. 

During Friday's appearance on Maher's show, he scolded liberals for choosing not to campaign on issues that the American people were most concerned about, while admitting that Trump did, and was the closer candidate to the center of the political spectrum. 

"Here's the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, 'He's closer to normal than what we see on the left,'" Smith said. 

"I think that in light of those results we have to look at this election as a referendum on the Democratic Party. And America's saying we're not feeling where you are, we're not feeling where you tried to go, we want no part of it, we're not having it - and they made their choice and we all have to accept it," he said. 

"It's such a strong tilt to the progressive left where we are talking about transgender issues and culture wars and identity politics and all of this stuff. We are sick of all of that. That makes total, total sense to me, and I'm good with it, even though I didn't vote for [Trump]. I'm not as taken aback and feeling like nothing but gloom and doom and the world is coming to an end because the person I voted for didn't win," Smith said. 

Smith also did not rule out a possible presidential run for himself during an interview on "The View" the week after the election.

"I have no desire to be a congressional figure or a senator. But if you came to me and you told me I had a legitimate shot to win the presidency of the United States of America, I would definitely consider it," he said.