Stephen A. Smith on Sunday dismissed news about former Vice President Kamala Harris’s upcoming book, saying, “Who cares what she has to say?”
Harris’s book on her 2024 presidential campaign, “107 Days,” will be released on Tuesday.
“Well, there’s nothing to elaborate about,” the ESPN commentator said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Who cares what she has to say at this particular moment in time? I hope the book is successful.”
Harris, who became the Democratic nominee after former President Biden dropped out of the presidential race in July 2024, called her boss’s decision to run for reelection “reckless” in an excerpt published in The Atlantic. After Biden’s halting debate performance against President Trump in June 2024, though, Harris publicly backed the former president.
Smith criticized Harris for not speaking up regarding Biden’s physical and mental decline earlier, noting that a Democratic primary would have forced her to “compete” for the nomination. He said the former vice president went into “protective mode” and prioritized her loyalty to Biden above all else.
In the book, Harris argued that she was in the “worst position” to make the case to Biden that he should not run.
“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run,” Harris wrote. “He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
With more than three years before the 2028 election, Harris is second among Democrats in national polling averages for the party’s presidential nomination — behind California Gov. Gavin Newsom — according to Race to the WH.
Smith, however, does not expect Harris to be a major contender in the next election, if she decides to run.
“I don’t think that she’s going to have any support from the Democratic Party. I can tell you that much,” he said.
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