Democratic strategist James Carville feels Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t prevail on Election Day as a result of Democrats couldn’t shake the “stench” of the “defund the police” motion and wokeness.
President-elect Donald Trump thumped Harris to reclaim the White Home, leaving Democrats to ponder the place they went flawed. Carville, a former Invoice Clinton adviser who has been a distinguished media presence all through the 2024 presidential race, feels the Democratic Occasion has develop into obsessive about “identitarianism,” a phrase he makes use of as a result of he doesn’t just like the time period “woke,” based on the New York Occasions.
“We could never wash off the stench of it,” Carville informed the Occasions, including that “defund the police” are “the three stupidest words in the English language.”
James Carville feels Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t prevail on Election Day as a result of Democrats couldn’t shake the “stench” of defund the police and wokeness. (Politicon YouTube channel)
“It’s like when you get smoke on your clothes, and you have to wash them again and again. Now people are running away from it like the devil runs away from holy water,” Carville stated.
The Occasions added that Carville did give Harris “credit for not leaning into her gender and ethnicity.”
Final week, Carville indicated he was nonetheless attempting to make heads or tails of the election outcomes.
“I don’t know what percent of this defeat is because we didn’t embrace the change message or we kept something too long — you know, there was some flaw in our strategy and our presentation,” stated Carville.
Vice President Kamala Harris misplaced as a result of the Democratic Occasion has develop into obsessive about “identitarianism,” based on Democratic strategist James Carville. (Getty Pictures)
He continued, “I’ll 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.”
Forward of the election, Carville predicted that Harris would win as a result of Trump is “stone a– nuts.”
“She’s got more money, got more energy, has a more united party, has better surrogates and he’s stone a– nuts,” Carville informed MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” when requested about why he thought the vice chairman can be the winner.
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Fox Information Digitals’ Hanna Panreck and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
