Democratic strategist James Carville expressed frustration that Americans fell for President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘shit,’ while reacting to the election results in a video Thursday.
Before Tuesday’s blowout, Carville predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris would pull off a victory, even though polls showed Trump in a better position.
speaking to the camera in a video for PoliticonCarville, who helped Bill Clinton win the White House in 1992, was horrified that the country had elected a “criminal bigot” instead of electing the first woman president.
‘So I have to re-evaluate. I’m sure I’ll come up with something that makes me feel good again, but right now it’s hard, I’ll be honest with you,” Carville said. “And the hardest thing is that I look across the country and I see dozens of “Millions of people fell for that shit, and it’s depressing.”
Carville noted that there have been many “criminals, charlatans, swindlers, traitors, bastards.”
Democratic strategist James Carville expressed frustration that Americans fell for President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘shit,’ while reacting to the election results in a video Thursday.
“We’ve had all of that before,” he said.
But he called it “disgusting” that people “accepted and supported this.”
‘This guy got 50 percent, okay? You can argue: Hitler never got 33, okay? It’s terrifying that we got this far. And, by the way, 4 percent unemployment.’
On Friday, Carville predicted a Harris victory because “she’s got more money, she’s got more energy, she’s got a more united party, she’s got better surrogates, and he’s crazy as a rock.”
Carville, 80, famously coined the term “It’s the economy, stupid,” to explain why Clinton scored a victory over President George HW Bush, ending three Republican terms in the White House.
32 years later, it was the economy again, and President Joe Biden (and Harris, in turn) received low poll numbers for their handling of inflation in the post-Covid era.
“Mark Robinson could get a job as Secretary of Education,” Carville continued, referring to the failed North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate whose bid failed thanks to sexually explicit and racially charged comments he had made in the past. ‘He’s going to do all that. And he told you he was going to do it. And you did and you voted for him.
“I’ll get through this, but I’m in a very, very dark tunnel right now,” Carville admitted.
The Democratic strategist then pivoted and talked about some of the burgeoning talent in the Democratic Party: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Georgia Sen. , Raphael Warnock.
“The level of talent at the governor and senator level in the Democratic Party is extremely high,” he said.
Carville, a Louisiana native, also points to former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who joined the Biden administration.
He lamented that “we had so much talent that we never put it on the playing field.”
“The only worrying thing about this is that we won the battle of the surrogates 95 to 5. We had two former presidents, we had every rock star, cultural icon and athlete you can imagine,” he said.
“We had a top field operation, the canvassing, the door-to-door work,” he continued.
‘They just stole every dollar, they didn’t do any of that. They were vulgar, rude and rude people. And we also raised more money,’ he said. “If you look at all the intangible advantages we had, it didn’t mean anything.”
Carville assessed that Trump was elected because he was able to argue that “everything that happened to you is a result of migration and disorder.”
“At the end of the day we had every advantage, but we had the perception of disarray at every level: foreign policy, border policy, economic policy,” Carville said. “At the end of the day, it seems to me that the key word is that people want order and will pay anything to have order.”