Stephen A. Smith: Democrats will likely win midterms, but they ‘will mess up anything’

Stephen A. Smith predicted that Democrats have a 75 percent chance of winning the midterm elections and gaining control of at least one of the chambers of Congress — but that they could still blow it.

“Democrats can blow anything. The Democrats could blow a 29-point lead, just the way the San Antonio Spurs did in the playoffs,” Smith said, referencing the New York Knicks’ come-from-behind win in Game 4 during this month’s NBA Finals.

“Don’t put anything past the Democrats when it comes to that. They will get in their own way. They will mess up anything if you give them an opportunity to, because they’re divided, they’re fragmented,” Smith said when ITK caught up with him at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Sunday.

“You got the left and then you got the progressive left. We saw what happened in New York with [Zohran Mamdani] and some of the candidates that he endorsed,” Smith said of New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, who backed three House candidates who last week all went on to win their primaries.

“We see what Gavin Newsom is trying to do in California,” ESPN’S “First Take” host continued of the Golden State’s Democratic governor.

“You see a level of progressivism that’s taking hold in states like New York and LA. And even though that may be something that would never win a general [election], nevertheless, it’s gaining........

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