{"id":5832,"date":"2026-01-17T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/01\/17\/stephen-a-smith-dead-serious-about-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:39:16","slug":"stephen-a-smith-dead-serious-about-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/01\/17\/stephen-a-smith-dead-serious-about-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith: &#8220;Dead Serious&#8221; About Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donald-Trump-Stephen-A.-Smith.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"86.979468281127\">\n<p>\u200c<a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/stephen-a-smith\">Stephen A. Smith<\/a> just dropped some serious news that\u2019s got everyone talking. The ESPN host isn\u2019t playing games about a possible 2028 presidential run.<\/p>\n<p>Smith sat down with <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uZ_tIUJilRM\"><em>ABC News\u2019<\/em><\/a> Linsey Davis and made it crystal clear: he\u2019s considering a White House bid because powerful people keep approaching him about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m considering it in all seriousness, because I\u2019ve had very, very serious people approach me about it,\u201d Smith told Davis in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>First Take<\/em> host explained that billionaires and elected officials have been hitting him up about exploratory committees. That\u2019s not casual conversation anymore. Smith stressed he never wanted to be a politician. But when people with real influence start talking about presidential runs, you listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no choice,\u201d Smith said during an earlier <em>ABC<\/em> interview in April 2025. \u201cI\u2019ve had elected officials coming up to me. I\u2019ve had folks who are pundits come up to me. I\u2019ve had folks that got a lot of money, billionaires and others that have talked to me about exploratory committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even his pastor jumped in the mix. The religious leader told Smith not to close the door on anything.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><d## class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d## class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All Access with Linsey Davis: Stephen A. Smith\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZ_tIUJilRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/d##><br \/>\n<\/d##><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t close the door on this,\u201d Smith recalled his pastor saying. \u201cYou never know what God has in store for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith registered as an Independent voter. He\u2019s been hammering both political parties on his shows for years. The sports commentator sees himself as someone who could shake up the political establishment.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to debate career politicians on national TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dead serious about wanting to go up against those politicians,\u201d Smith explained. \u201cNot be a politician, but wanting to go up against them on a debate stage to call out what they have done to our country, to harm us. It would be my pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith thinks the fact that people want a sports analyst to run for president shows how broken the Democratic Party is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why somebody who\u2019s a sports analyst, for crying out loud, is in the daggone on polls,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s not somebody big upping in me. It\u2019s an indictment against a Democratic Party that doesn\u2019t have leadership. It doesn\u2019t have a vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ESPN personality has been catching heat for his comments about Black women in politics. He personally apologized to Rep. <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/jasmine-crockett\">Jasmine Crockett<\/a> after his criticism potentially created an environment in which Trump attacked her.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also went after Joy Reid after the former <em>MSNBC<\/em> host criticized him. He said Reid\u2019s show got canceled because her ratings dropped 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your numbers drop 47% and you are Black in this culture that we\u2019re living in, did you really expect something else to happen?\u201d Smith asked.<\/p>\n<p>Smith loves his current job hosting shows on ESPN and his own podcast. He makes millions talking sports and culture. Still, the presidential talk has shifted from hypothetical to real consideration. Smith said the responsibility that comes with his platform forces him to think bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has confirmed that the 2028 presidential filing deadlines won\u2019t be issued until late 2027, giving him two more years to decide.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/stephen-a-smith-dead-serious-about-presidential-bid\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200cStephen A. Smith just dropped some serious news that\u2019s got everyone talking. The ESPN host isn\u2019t playing games about a possible 2028 presidential run. Smith sat down with ABC News\u2019 Linsey Davis and made it crystal clear: he\u2019s considering a White House bid because powerful people keep approaching him about it. \u201cI\u2019m considering it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}