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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith unloaded on President Biden this week after Biden told USA Today he thinks he could have beaten Donald Trump if he hadn’t dropped out of the presidential race; “It’s delusional!” Stephen A. said during The Stephen A. Smith Show.
Biden also indicated in the interview that he was uncertain he could have lasted another four years.
“I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton,” Biden said in the interview. “But I don’t know. Who the hell knows? So far, so good. But who knows what I’m going to be when I’m 86 years old?”
Stephen A. unloaded on the outgoing president in a fiery monologue.
“It’s validation on several levels why President Biden should have bowed his ass out of the race. You see, you can’t let him off the hook here. So let me get this straight: you knew that you probably couldn’t go another four years, but you ran for election. You didn’t bow out,” Stephen A. said. “You didn’t do what you had promised to do, which was to be a transitional president and pass the baton to a younger generation. You didn’t do that. Then you sat up there and you avoided primaries, and then you went and showed up on June 27th and looked lost.”
“That is pathetic. That is inexcusable. But by the way, let me take it a step further: it’s also delusional that you would have beat Trump. Let’s state that for the obvious, because clearly the American people have spoken, and if they spoke against [Vice President] Kamala Harris, the likelihood is that they would have spoke against you because of the things you yourself just mentioned,” he continued. “This is the kind of stuff that’s going to hurt the Democratic Party for years to come. Because, you see, if he felt that way and he had those reservations, even though he believed he could beat Trump in a runoff of the election, the bottom line is the Democratic Party knew — and they tried to hide him. You don’t have credibility any longer.”
“But when I saw that quote from Biden, I said, ‘Thank God he’s leaving. Thank God.’ I’ve had enough,” Stephen A. added.
Watch the clip above.