Sean Hannity just made major news about the next Presidential election.
A contender everyone thought would run just bowed out.
And Sean Hannity asked one 2028 question and received this jaw-dropping response.
On the latest episode of his Hanging Out with Sean Hannity, Hannity put the 2028 question to ESPN host Stephen A. Smith.
Smith is the face of ESPN and became the biggest star in sports broadcasting with his lack of a verbal filter.
Smith gained 2028 traction on the Democratic side by increasing the frequency of political commentary on his podcast and his cable news appearances.
Some thought Smith could be the left’s version of Donald Trump, a brash, celebrity outsider who is willing to say whatever he wants, consequences be damned.
But Hannity was skeptical Smith would actually run and asked Smith point-blank about 2028.
“Here’s my big question,” Hannity began. “2028’s coming pretty quick. If you had to pick — assume you’re — I think it’s all bull***, I don’t think you’re running. Am I right?”
Smith recently signed a 5-year, $100 million contract with ESPN and told Hannity he wouldn’t run for President because it would require him to give up his deal.
“I don’t think I’m running either, ’cause I gotta give up my money,” Smith responded. “I ain’t giving up my money.”
“Yeah, you wanna — you want a plane,” Hannity replied
“Sean, I ain’t giving up my money,” Smith declared. “I can tell you right now. Let me put that presidential aspiration to bed — ”
“It’s over,” Hannity stated.
“If I have to give up my money, it’s not happening!” Smith emphasized.
Donald Trump took over the Republican Party in 2016 by challenging the establishment for losing the plot on immigration, trade, and foreign policy.
Smith seemed to be charting a similar course on the left.
After the State of the Union, Smith admonished Democrats for falling into Trump’s trap by refusing to stand when Trump challenged them to stand for the idea that the U.S. government should work for the American people and not illegal aliens.
“You played right into his hands. Don’t come back at me and say ‘Eff Stephen A. Smith,’ or ‘Stephen A. Smith is selling out,’ or ‘Stephen A. Smith is this way or that way.’ I’m just telling you what it is. Don’t kill the messenger. Shape the message in a fashion that benefits you for once. The man has been playing y’all like a fiddle for 11 years now, and you still can’t beat him,” Smith declared on his podcast.
Smith also warned Democrats risked defeat in 2026 and 2028 if they followed Muslim Communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s lead.
“Let me be very, very clear. If the Democratic Party becomes the likes of Zohran Mamdani — who, by the way, I like, I’m not trying to throw any shade on him or anything like that — if the Democratic Party becomes him, you have no chance,” Smith fumed.
“You have no chance. On a national basis, in terms of the presidency, in Senate seats, and in the House, you have no chance,” Smith continued.
But if Stephen A. Smith is going to continue to criticize the Democratic Party, it won’t be from a Presidential primary debate stage.
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