Donald Trump would lose 'hands down' to Michelle Obama at the next election if she ran for president, says ESPN's Stephen A. Smith

Stephen A. Smith says Donald Trump would easily lose the next presidential election if he was going up against Michelle Obama instead of Joe Biden.

Smith made the claim in an appearance on former NBA player Kevin Garnett's podcast, where the ESPN analyst was asked how close he thinks the United States is to having a female president.

He blamed James Comey for Hilary Clinton losing to Trump in 2016, saying: 'If the FBI director at the time, James Comey, hadn’t come in at the last minute with some s*** about Hillary and emails, and Hillary — I believe — had campaigned in Wisconsin and Philadelphia in the waning days before the election, I think you would’ve had a female president in 2016. I think that she was that close.

'And I think that Michelle Obama would win right now if she were to run.

'I think that Michelle Obama would hands down be the next president of the United States if she were to run against Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. 

Donald Trump would lose the next election Michelle Obama ran, says Stephen A. Smith

Smith said that Obama would beat Trump 'hands down' if she stood instead of Joe Biden

While Smith doesn't seem a Trump fan, he has not been too keen on Joe Biden before 

'Now, that obviously is not gonna happen. She doesn’t seem to have an interest.'

While Smith has been critical of Trump. he isn't the biggest Biden fan around either and said in March that he is unsure which party he wants to win the election later this year.

'I find myself ashamed of the Democratic Party for their lack of a competitive fervor,' Smith told the Patrick Bet-David podcast at the end of March.

'You had since 2016 to come up with somebody else, and you still can’t do it? That is pathetic.

'It is pathetic and there is no excuse for it whatsoever.

'It is 2024. In eight years, you should have been able to find somebody that could compete with this man other than a soon 82-year-old incumbent.'  

Trump and Biden have agreed to hold two debates later this year ahead of the November election.

The first is June 27 in Atlanta, and the second will be on September 10.