Democratic strategist James Carville explained why he believes Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election with CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday.
Smerconish pointed out a reader's comment in response to Carville's comment New York Times editorial From Thursday,” this from the New York Times: “Character, honesty, decency, intelligence, democracy. None of that stuff seems to matter in our country when you elect a president. “I think that pretty much says it all, what would you say to that person?”
“Well, first of all, I completely agree with this guy,” Carville responded, adding, “Michael, there's a simple, basic rule of politics that voters want elections about them. They don't want elections about you or about them. We've lost that myself. We did it about Trump and we didn't do it about voters.
Carville was predicting a Harris win before the election, even writing a separate article An editorial for The Times It's titled, “Three reasons I'm sure Kamala Harris will win.”
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Democrats have focused too much on attacking Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign, Democratic strategist James Carville told CNN host Michael Smerconish. (Screenshot/CNN)
While talking about Democrats prioritizing attack President-elect Donald Trump Because of voters' concerns, Carville asked himself: “How can I, at 80 years old, do this for 50 years and be at this level of stupidity?”
The longtime Democratic strategist was also critical of his party's understanding of how people receive their information, saying: “Now what I'm going to educate myself on is how people receive information. And I don't think Democrats fully appreciate that.”
Carville pointed to the GOP's use of alternative media, saying, “I think they're much better at what we call alternative media, but I'm not sure that alternative media isn't the main place people are getting information now,” adding, “I want to know who “Where do these people get this stupid information? There's a lot of misinformation and you can't correct it all.”
He also continued to blame voters' concerns about the Biden administration's handling of inflation and the crisis Southern border on misinformation, claiming that “people thought we had disruption on the border. People thought it was disruption in pricing and inflation. People's thinking was incorrect. I would argue that was a crime.”
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Carville believes rampant misinformation from alternative media helped Republicans win on issues like the crisis on the southern border and inflation. (Aspen Institute YouTube channel)
He also claimed that Republicans took the crisis on the southern border and “framed it as an economic issue. These people are coming to take your jobs. And they're actually doing nothing of the sort.”
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As for the future, Carville offered three issues the Democratic Party should focus on in the upcoming election: “Let's try to codify Roe v. Wade, which has two-thirds support. It's all across the Democratic Party. They can't do it. Let's talk about lifting Minimum wage to $15 an hour, this unites the Democratic Party with over two thirds support let's talk about taxes over 400k tax cuts expire take this money and put it in the first time homebuyer relief fund or the rental relief fund.
