Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway compared sports analyst Stephen A. Smith to former President Obama and President Trump, explaining that they were all “political outsiders.”
Conway joined Fox News’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday, where she weighed in on the future of the Democratic Party and how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has entered the spotlight amid a nationwide speaking tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
“[Ocasio Cortez] not A-Okay, Bernie burned by his party, and I think the two of them together reminds people at the party, whether it’s hard for newer people, they’re just not fresh and new anymore. I find their act to be very boring,” Conway, a staunch Trump ally, said.
“Stephen A Smith is intriguing to me because Obama was an outsider. Donald Trump certainly was a political outsider,” she added.
Smith has not closed the door on a potential run in the 2028 presidential election. He criticized the Democratic Party, which has seen pessimism rise, sharply over its wide 2024 losses and ramped up talk about a possible bid.
Trump, who was a businessman and TV personality before announcing his run for office in 2015, has been examined as a political outsider that has shaken up more than a decade of politics — particularly within the Republican Party. Obama, however, was a career politician. He served Illinois in the Senate until he ran for president and served in the Illinois state Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Conway noted that when Trump announced his run for office, he was polling poorly and viewed as a not serious candidate. That could be how the Democratic Party views Smith, she argued.
“Trump was mired in single digits in all the early primary polls, and people said what? ‘You can’t win. You’re not, quote, electable,’” Conway said.
“Electability, the lack of electability, is going to haunt Steven a Smith, but it’s a gift to him, because the moment people say he can’t win, voters say, I don’t care who can win. I care who can lead,” she added.