Stephen A. Smith pulls off a stunning about-face on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith revealed that he has changed his mind about President-elect Donald Trump and regrets voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Smith, a longtime sports journalist and anchor for ESPN First recordingsaid Fox News’ Mark Levin that he “doesn’t like” the fact that he voted for Harris in November after defending her in the lead-up to the election.

“I voted for Democrats, and I have to tell you something now: I don’t like that fact,” Smith said.

“I don’t like what I see. “I don’t want to hear, ‘Oh, it’s about the law.’ citing President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after he was convicted of three federal charges. He was charged with weapons possession and later pleaded guilty to tax charges.

“I don’t want to hear about ‘defunding the police.’ I don’t want to hear about open borders. I don’t want to hear that stuff,” Smith continued. “I don’t think most Americans want to hear that.”

Levin asked the ESPN icon if he would hypothetically vote for Trump if given a third chance. Smith responded that he wasn’t going to “shrug it off” before explaining why he voted against him in the first place.

“What worried me about Donald Trump and the reason I voted against him and for Kamala Harris was that I felt that he would be divisive, that he would cause chaos, because he had such a level of loyalty and fealty demanded of him. and that would take precedence over the government of our nation,” he said.

“Still… if he puts some of what he said into action, then it’s not just about eliminating inflation, improving the economy and of course controlling our borders, those are all things that are close to my heart lie,” he continued.

“But it can’t just be about loyalty to him and loyalty to him. It has to be about doing the job in the interest of the American people, not in our own interest, and not engaging in youthful tendencies of constantly tweeting and taking care of people who are, by and large, by and large irrelevant.”

This came after Smith told Fox News in October that he would vote for most Republicans but not for the president-elect.

“I would have voted for almost any Republican but him. Nikki Haley. Chris Christie,” Smith told Sean Hannity less than two weeks before the election. “But not him.”

He also criticized Trump’s interview with the Association of Black Journalists over the summer, in which the Republican falsely claimed that Harris “accidentally turned black.”

However, Smith publicly apologized in April after facing intense criticism for his comments about black voters supporting Trump.

“A lot of people in black America seem to be pretty mad at me right now, from friends and family to colleagues, contemporaries and, dare I say it, even the NAACP itself,” Smith said in a video posted on X. “Many people were upset, if not offended, after my words were interpreted as conflating the black community’s support for Trump with all the legal problems he is facing. For this I sincerely apologize.”