Talk show hosts Stephen A. Smith and Charlamagne Tha God comment on former Vice President Kamala Harris saying she wants to take a step back from America’s “broken” political system. “Her whole career has been the system!” Charlamagne said. “You’re a career politician. You’ve been there practically all your life,” Smith agreed. “And now you’re saying it’s broken? That means you couldn’t do much to fix it when you were in it.”

STEPHEN A. SMITH: I personally believe there’s no way in hell she’s going to win the presidency in 2028. I don’t think that she’s going to be the candidate. I think her time-she had a chance at that. It didn’t get done, and that’s where I’m at with it. What about you? CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: You know, Kamala is a friend, man. I’ve always-I’ve been supporting Kamala for a long time. But I can’t sit here and say I disagree with you. I think that she should do whatever it is that she wants to do, but when I heard her say that, you know, the system is broken and she wants to take a step back from the system-her whole career has been the system. I don’t-I just don’t see- SMITH: It made no sense! CHARLAMAGNE: Her whole career has been the system. I just don’t see how now, you know, she’s going to take a step back away from the system. But I do think that, you know, her mentality of wanting to go out there and say, “I want to be more of a public servant and actually, you know, be on the ground, meeting people, shaking their hands, looking them in the eyes, talking to them”-I think that will have more of an impact than people think. I saw people saying that, you know, she wouldn’t make a good surrogate because, you know, she’s unpopular-and I’m putting “unpopular” in quotes. I mean, she’s got the second most votes of any Democratic nominee in a presidential election ever. Now, I don’t know, you know, what that personally means, especially when the first one was Joe Biden, but if you got that many people who went out there and voted for you, then she clearly has some type of cache that she probably could use to help other individuals win elections, right? I don’t-I don’t know what happens for her in 2028 as far as a Democratic primary and things like that, because I think, you know, her-you know where her biggest opposition will come from, Stephen? The Democratic Party. Because you got some people in the Democratic Party who didn’t want- they didn’t want her when she ran for 107 days. You think they’re going to want her in 2028? SMITH: Right. Which is the latest reason why I don’t think she’d have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. I’m not saying that she couldn’t be a surrogate-go out there and campaign, give speeches, assist-but she can’t be the candidate. And again, we got to remind her: when she couldn’t make it to Iowa in 2020, and in 2024 she bypassed the primaries. We all know that in part-obviously Joe Biden had everything to do with that because he didn’t step away as early as he should have. And we get that part. But in the end, the popularity was a question mark. And just like she went on The View, and she said-when Sunny Hostin asked her, Is there anything that you would do differently?-and she said, No, I can’t think of any. This was another example: when they asked her the other day about her stepping away, and she’s like, I want to step back from it. The system is broken. You’re a career politician. You’ve been there practically all your life. You’ve been an attorney, a state attorney general. You’ve been a prosecutor. You’ve been a senator. You’ve been a vice president. My God, you’ve been a part of it. And now you’re saying it’s broken? That means you couldn’t do but so much to fix it when you was in it. So how are we going to believe you can do that now? CHARLAMAGNE: That system was broken long before Donald Trump, you know, got into office.

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