Genie, a couple of things to remember.

1. Because a person is critical of one particular candidate means only that, nothing else.

2. Whom the person being critical supports is no one's business but there own--we have secret balloting in the US for VERY good reasons, and we are witnessing it in this election.

3. It is entirely possible for people to be critical of the candidate they ultimately end up voting for, when the system is rigged to force "lesser of two evils" voting.

So, I don't know who Tavis Smiley is going to vote for, but it is none of my damn business.

As a host of a public affairs program on PBS, I would expect nothing less than him examining the candidates critically--that is his job.

Finally, do you know for a fact that he hasn't made critical observations of the other candidates when doing public speaking gigs, including the one quoted in the opening post of this thread?

Maybe you shouldn't presume so much.