Former First Lady Michelle Obama has shockingly said that Americans, men in particular, aren’t ready to elect a woman president.
And Stephen A. Smith is big-time taking exception.
Obama made the statement earlier this month while promoting her book “The Look” at an event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Post reported.
“As we saw in the past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” the former FLOTUS told actor Tracee Ellis Ross, who was the moderator of the event.
Obama was referring to the 2024 presidential election, which Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump.
She said, “That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.”
Video from the event was posted to Obama’s official YouTube page on Friday.
When asked whether her eight years in the White House had paved the way for a woman to be president, Obama said that men are far from ready.
“You know, we got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it,” Obama said.
But ESPN host Stephen A. Smith fired back at Obama, the New York Post reported.
On his “Straight Shooter” show on SiriusXM, Smith said, “Didn’t we just see an election take place last month where a woman won the gubernatorial seat in New Jersey — Mikie Sherrill? Didn’t we just see Abigail Spanberger win in Virginia — the gubernatorial seat? Isn’t Kathy Hochul the governor of New York? Am I missing something? Maybe I need to go back to the 2016 election with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Didn’t she win the popular vote in the United States?”
Pointing to Clinton’s 2.9-million popular vote margin over Trump in 2016, Smith asked, “What do you mean we weren’t ready?”
Smith added that Harris, with 74 million popular votes last year, won more votes than any other Democratic presidential candidate in U.S. history.
Harris lost the popular vote and the Electoral College tally to Trump last year.
Trump in 2016 won the Electoral College and the presidency despite Clinton’s popular-vote edge.
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