Democratic strategist James Carville expressed frustration that Americans fell for President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘s***,’ as he reacted to the election results in a video Thursday.
Ahead of Tuesday’s shellacking, Carville predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris would pull off a win, despite polling showing Trump in a better position.
Speaking into the camera in a video for Politicon, Carville – who helped usher in Bill Clinton’s 1992 White House win – was aghast that the country selected a ‘felonious bigot’ over electing the first female president.
‘So I have to reevaluate. I’m sure I’ll come up with something to make me feel good again, but right now today it’s hard, I’ll be honest with you,’ Carville said. ‘And the hardest thing is that I look across this country and tens of millions of people fell for that s***, and it’s depressing.’
Carville noted that there have been plenty of ‘criminals, charlatans, con men, traitors, scumbags.’
Democratic strategist James Carville expressed frustration that Americans fell for President-elect Donald Trump ‘s ‘s***,’ as he reacted to the election results in a video Thursday
‘We’ve had all of that before,’ he said.
But he called it ‘sickening’ that people were ’embracing and endorsing this.’
‘This guy got 50 percent, OK? They can make the argument – Hitler never got 33, OK? This is frightening that we would get here. And, by the way, in 4 percent unemployment.’
On Friday, Carville predicted a Harris win because, ‘She’s got more money, more energy, has a more united party, has better surrogates and he’s stone-a** nuts.’
Carville, 80, famously coined the term, ‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ to why Clinton was able to pull off a win over President George H.W. Bush – ending three terms of Republican rule in the White House.
32 years later, it was the economy again, with President Joe Biden – and Harris in turn – receiving low poll numbers for their handling of inflation in the post-COVID era.
‘Mark Robinson might get a job as Secretary of Education,’ Carville continued, referencing the failed North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate whose bid was derailed thanks to past sexually explicit and racially charged comments that he had made. ‘He’s going to do all of that. And he told you he was going to do it. And you did it and you voted for him.’
‘I’ll snap out of it, 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 gubernatorial and senatorial level at the Democratic Party is extremely high,’ he said.
Carville, a Louisiana native, also pointing to former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who joined the Biden administration.
He chagrined that ‘we had a lot of talent that we never got them in the playing field.’
‘The one distressing thing about this, we won the surrogate battle 95 to 5. We had two ex-presidents out there, we had every rock star, cultural icon, athlete you could imagine,’ he said.
‘We had a superior field operation, the canvassing, the door-to-door stuff,’ he continued.
‘They just stole every dollar, they did none of that. They were vulgar, crude, rude people. And we also raised more money,’ he said. ‘You look at all the intangible advantages we had, and it didn’t amount to anything.’
Carville assessed that Trump was elected because he was able to make the argument 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 disorder on every kind of level – foreign policy, border policy, economic policy,’ Carville said. ‘At the end of the day, it seems to me that the operative word is people want order and will pay anything to have order.’