Veteran US political strategist James Carville says he believes Democratic candidate Kamala Harris can win the presidency partly because her campaign is better organized and also because Trump is “so crazy”.
Carville, 80, brought Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 with a campaign best remembered for its terse slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
This time, Carville angered Democrats by loudly insisting for months that President Joe Biden was too old to run again, until the party suddenly agreed with him and Biden stepped aside.
‘I think she’s going to win. She has more money, more energy, a more united party, better substitutes and he is crazy as a rock,” Carville said in MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday.
Veteran US political strategist James Carville says he believes Democratic candidate Kamala Harris can win the presidency partly because her campaign is better organized and also because Trump is “so crazy”.
‘I think she’s going to win. “She’s got more money, she’s got more energy, she’s got a more united party, she’s got better replacements, and he’s crazy as a rock,” Carville, 80, said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday.
Carville also criticized the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post for their decisions not to endorse Harris.
“I mean, when you start talking about lining up a political opponent with nine people on a firing squad and then you have the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times saying, ‘Oh, I don’t want to get involved in this,'” this is dirty politics. It’s incredible,’ he said.
‘Joe, it’s amazing. We’ve been around the world once or twice and we’ve never seen anything like it.
Carville currently serves as a senior adviser to the liberal American Super PAC and opposition research group American Bridge 21st Century and has laid out why he believes Harris will win the White House.
‘My reason is 100 percent emotional. We are constantly told that America is too divided, too plagued by tribalism, to understand what is at stake. That is totally wrong,” Carville wrote in an article for the New York Times.
‘If the Cheneys and AOC can get the Constitution and our democracy on the ballot, every true conservative and every true progressive should get it too. “A vast majority of Americans are rational, reasonable people of good will,” Carville said.
Carville believes Kamala Harris will win because she has “more money, more energy and a more united party.”
Carville described Trump as “crazy as a rock” and hopes a Harris victory will send Trump “into a prolonged remission.”
Veteran strategist James Carville brought Bill Clinton to the White House with a campaign best remembered for its pithy slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
‘I refuse to believe that the same country that has time and again overcome its mistakes to tilt its future toward justice will make the same mistake twice. America surpassed Mr. Trump in 2020. I know we know we are better than this.
“We not only have the opportunity to elect Kamala Harris as president, but also the opportunity to end Donald Trump’s sordid career and propel MAGA into a prolonged remission.”
Carville believes Harris can win the election by again following her famous slogan and becoming “more aggressive” with attacks on Donald Trump’s economic record.
“As always, Trump is offering people snake oil and things that have never worked, like tariffs, which is a historically dumb idea,” Carville said of the Republican presidential candidate.
“We don’t have to be as good as Bill Clinton” at delivering that message, Carville said, calling his eloquent former boss “the greatest who ever lived.”
But “human life cannot be separated from economic life.” We discover this more every day,” said Carville.
Carville, a staunch Democrat, has been married to Republican strategist Mary Matalin, 71, for 41 years.
The current Democratic administration has been paralyzed by skyrocketing inflation.
But price increases have cooled recently and other economic indicators, such as stock markets, are near all-time highs.
And experts, including the head of the International Monetary Fund, have warned that Trump’s plans to impose new tariffs on imports risk driving up consumer prices, hitting low-income families the hardest.
‘Some people may think the economy could be better for them. They always do,” Carville said.
But even though “Trump says you have nothing to lose… I think we’re certainly in a place where you have something to lose,” he said.
‘A record number of Americans are working. A record number of Americans have some money in the stock market…we have to talk about it in a way that’s relevant to people.’
Political consultant James Carville is no longer inside the Democratic war room, but his influence remains enormous.
Carville was heavily criticized for an interview in March in which he said the Democratic Party had become “too feminine” and dominated by values like “not drinking beer.” Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers… Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet.’
But Carville believes there has been a quiet but necessary reduction of “identity politics” in his party.
“No one talks like that anymore… it didn’t work,” he said.
But despite his legendary status among political strategists, Carville insists he is “not very good at predicting elections.”
“I never think about who’s going to win,” he said. “Because every minute I think about who’s going to win, I don’t think about how we can win.”