ESPN host Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday called President Joe Bidenās re-election campaign āutterly embarrassingā and noted that he would back one GOP candidate before anyone else in the 2024 presidential race.
Smith appeared on the Fox News show āHannityā days after publicly cringing at the thought of Biden getting a second term.
āSomebodyās gotta say it, so Iām gonna say it: We need a new president in 2024. We need a new president,ā he said in his podcast on Friday, according to The Hill.
āI voted for him, and based on some of the leading candidates on the right side, Iād probably be forced to vote for him again ācause they scare the living hell outta me with some of the things that theyāre preaching about. But I wouldnāt like it,ā Smith said.
On āHannity,ā Ā Smith said in his opinion āthereās an abundance of people who can do betterā than Biden.
āWhat Iām going to tell you is this: Iām looking at him, and I donāt like what I see. ⦠Iām very concerned with what Iāve seen, and the fact that heās going to be 82 years of age at election time,ā Smith said.
Smith said liberals should do better.
āIt is utterly embarrassing that the liberal side has him as their best candidate. What does it say about you when that is the best candidate that you can give the left? That is ridiculous,ā he said.
On the show, Smith praised former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who entered the crowded Republican presidential field on Tuesday.
āI understand that heās got a gladiatorial attitude, and heās ready to combat,ā Smith said. āI think that heās a guy that is not walking around and preaching about ārigged electionsā and all of this other stuff. Heās about moving the country forward.ā
Smith said Christie is a longshot to defeat GOP front-runner former President Donald Trump.
āIām not trying to campaign for Chris Christie or anything. The bottom line is heās certainly not a liberal,ā Smith replied.
āWhen you look at him, and I think that, you know, heās competent and, more importantly, heās going to be talking about issues as opposed to having us distracted with a whole bunch of nonsense that we donāt need to be distracted with as a country.
āThatās all Iām saying. Now, whether he wins or not, I know itās a long shot,ā he said, adding, āIād vote for him before Iād vote for any of the Democratic candidates that Iāve seen.ā
On Friday, Smith said that it is a worrisome sign that Biden is the Democratic Partyās candidate.
āWhat does it say about our country where weāre looking at an 80-year-old, who will be 82 if he wins the presidency again in 2024? What does it say about our country if thatās what weāre depending on?ā he said then, according to Fox.
āI mean, to the Democrats, yāall aināt got nobody? Nobody?ā
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
