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 improper. Carville, a former Invoice Clinton adviser who has been a distinguished media presence all through the 2024 presidential race, feels the Democratic Celebration 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,” according to the New York Times.
“We may by no means wash off the stench of it,” Carville informed the Instances, including that “defund the police” are “the three stupidest phrases within the English language.”
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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 while you get smoke in your garments, and you must wash them repeatedly. Now persons are working away from it just like the satan runs away from holy water,” Carville mentioned.
The Instances added that Carville did give Harris “credit score for not leaning into her gender and ethnicity.”
Final week, Carville indicated he was nonetheless making an attempt to make heads or tails of the election outcomes.
“I don’t know what p.c of this defeat is as a result of we didn’t embrace the change message or we saved one thing too lengthy — , there was some flaw in our technique and our presentation,” mentioned Carville.
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Vice President Kamala Harris misplaced as a result of the Democratic Celebration has develop into obsessive about “identitarianism,” based on Democratic strategist James Carville. (Getty Photos)
He continued, “I’ll should reevaluate. I’m positive I’ll give you one thing to make me really feel good once more, however proper now, at the moment, it’s exhausting.”
Forward of the election, Carville predicted that Harris would win as a result of Trump is “stone a– nuts.”
“She’s bought extra money, bought extra vitality, has a extra united occasion, has higher surrogates and he’s stone a– nuts,” Carville informed MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” when requested about why he thought the vp could be the winner.
Fox Information Digitals’ Hanna Panreck and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
