Stephen A. Smith Reveals Why He Would Beat Every Dem in 2028
The Rubin Report
Emma Dog Productions
4.6 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Stephen A. Smith about his potential plans to run for president as a Democrat in the 2028 election; why Democrats like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Kathy Hochul, Hillary Clinton and others continue to pander to black voters by insulting them and their intelligence; why he is so unimpressed by the potential Democrat nominees for the 2028 election and why he is confident that he could beat Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; why so many people think that Gavin Newsom is a shapeshifting and inauthentic politician and if he trusts him; why liberal celebrity activists like Mark Ruffalo keep thinking that if we only tax the rich or pass a billionaire wealth tax governments will be able to solve all the problems of society; why he thinks Zohran Mamdani is doomed to fail and why his response to the snowball attack on NYPD officers is a bad sign for New York City police officers; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Sass, Stephen A. Smith. |
| 0:10.3 | You want an intro? |
| 0:11.5 | What do I say about you at this point? |
| 0:13.4 | You're on every show all the time, everywhere, telling people what you do that. |
| 0:17.6 | I don't volunteer. |
| 0:19.5 | They ask me. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm just trying to be a nice guy. You know, I got love for y' you know when people ask me to come I'm like okay you know they wouldn't ask me to come unless they thought I could be of help so I'm here do you find that people start talking like you when they're talking to you because of the Asian inflection that you talk with I think that I think that it's people recognizing that I got away with it, you know, so they wish they could have gotten away with it all of these years, that kind of thing. |
| 0:44.0 | It's all that fun, though. |
| 0:44.9 | It's all cool. |
| 0:45.7 | Did you, I think I asked you this once, but did you, when you started broadcasting, was it really intentional to speak a certain way? |
| 0:54.2 | No. |
| 0:54.6 | It really was just coming out as it. |
| 0:56.5 | I had a background of mass communications at Winston-Salem State University in HBCU and North Carolina. |
| 1:01.6 | I get into the business as an intern first with the Winston-Salem Journal, then with the Greensboro News & Recit, then with the Atlanta Journal of Constitution, and then back in Greensboro. |
| 1:09.7 | So you're going to the business, and ultimately, you want to be a writer and what have you because you're thinking that, you know, when it comes to television, you're reading the prompt and all of that stuff. You don't understand all the stuff that goes with it. And I just knew that I didn't have that formal training. So being a reporter, getting intel information, I knew that was going to be a strength that I had to lean on. |
| 1:30.8 | And then subsequently, you know, you get in front of the microphone for television or radio. |
| 1:37.0 | And since you don't have that training, you're like, okay, my information will carry me. |
| 1:41.5 | The things that I have to say will carry me. |
| 1:44.0 | And it won't be held against me that I'm |
| 1:46.8 | devoid of that Midwestern accent where you can't tell where you're from. You'll know where I'm from |
| 1:52.7 | the way that I speak and it is what it is and let's see where that goes. And for some reason, |
| 1:58.0 | folks gravitated to me because I was unapologetic and I wasn't scared to say |
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