Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly challenged ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday on Vice President Kamala Harris’ silence about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Harris, who has yet to officially be nominated at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in mid-August, dared 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to debate her one-on-one. Trump made clear that he is “absolutely” willing to debate Harris and issued a reminder that he previously committed to debating Biden but has yet to officially plan his debate against Harris.

Kelly confronted Smith over Harris’ public quietness about Biden’s diminishing mental state, which kickstarted the push to replace the president on the Democrat ticket after his poor performance debating Trump on June 27.

“There’s a debate going on now about how much Kamala Harris should be held responsible for what Republicans are terming ‘the big lie’ about Joe Biden’s mental acuity,” Kelly said. “This is definitely a line that’s being pushed by team Trump and others against Kamala Harris — that she was in on it, and she should be held responsible for not outing his condition. How do you feel!”

“I don’t agree with Trump’s folks on that regard because I think it’s too late in the game for that. Look, my man, you’re the GOP nominee. Go up there and beat ‘em. You know, what record does she have? You’ve been touting the fact that you have a record and she really, really doesn’t. You’ve been saying all of these things and now, you know, when it was Biden, you were talking about how, ‘Not one, not two, I’ll debate him five different times. Let’s get it on.’ But all of a sudden, it’s somebody 19 years younger than you instead of three or four years older than you, and now you’re talking all of this? We don’t wanna hear that.”

Smith said he “took a lot of hits” for admitting Trump’s remarks against a weaponized justice system resonated with him. (RELATED: ‘This Loon Is Surging’: GOP Sen John Kennedy Spars With Fox News Host Over ‘Ding-Dong’ Kamala Harris)

The GOP nominee initially faced 91 criminal charges across four criminal cases at the beginning of 2024 — three of which have since been dismissed or postponed. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 felony charges in late May, which the former president blasted as a “rigged trial.”

“She’s doing exactly what you were say they didn’t want to do,” Smith said of Harris’ challenge to debate Trump. “When I look at it from that standpoint, it has me looking forward to the campaign and it has me looking forward to what I believe will be an imminent debate. And so, because of that, that’s what I want to see.”

“Don’t try to distract us with, ‘Oh, she didn’t dine out her boss.’ There’s a lot of people that’s not gonna do that,” he continued. “If you’re part of an administration, no matter what slippage you may see, you’re not gonna go out there and advertise it to the world. You’re going to talk about things internally.”

Smith urged Americans to “just move on from here,” prompting Kelly to demand Harris be held accountable.

“How can she not be held accountable when she also took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. And if she saw a man who now is essentially admitting he’s, he cannot be president, if she saw that, didn’t she have an obligation to do something about it? Because as far as we know, she did absolutely nothing about it and let him remain in control. And he’s still in control!” Kelly exclaimed.

“Well, you’re right, Megyn. If she did nothing. What I’m saying is, if she did, if she spoke, whether it was to Senator Schumer, whether it was to Nancy Pelosi, whether it was to Senator Booker… uh, you know, House Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, former President Barack Obama and others. If she were working internally to make sure those issues were being addressed because of what she witnessed and what she saw, but she didn’t just go outside in a public forum, come across as betraying the administration that she works under, I don’t have a problem with that,” Smith responded.

“You are right if she did absolutely nothing,” Smith continued. “I don’t know that she did nothing because look what ultimately ended up happening.”

Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Harris on July 21 after a weeks-long pressure campaign reportedly spearheaded by top Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama.