Long-time Democratic strategist James Carville has once again lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris for repeatedly deferring to the far-left faction of the party, which he says will cost her dearly in November.
The former adviser to then-President Bill Clinton made his remarks just days before Harris’ on Tuesday selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz is an uber-left-wing ‘progressive’ who instantly came under assault by conservatives for his record in the state, beginning with his refusal to immediately and decisively deal with the George Floyd-inspired rioting that destroyed a significant portion of Minneapolis in the spring and summer of 2020.
During his “Politics War Room” podcast last week, Carville said the far-left wing of the party is consistently “dead-ass wrong” on all major issues, adding he wished Harris would tell all of them to “go f**k themselves.”
Since emerging as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has attempted to moderate her earlier policy positions. During her tenure as a U.S. Senator, she was ranked the “most liberal” member of the Senate by the accountability website GovTrack.
Fox News reported that Harris had previously opposed fracking, supported Defund the Police initiatives, advocated for the legalization of marijuana, and opposed stringent border security measures. Carville cautioned that Harris must avoid aligning too closely with radical progressives in this campaign cycle to avoid jeopardizing her chances in the election.
“Understand this, and I’m going to say this as clearly as I can: Anybody that has ever listened to anything that the progressive left has ever said has lived to profoundly regret it. Literally on every issue, they’re dead a– wrong,” he said, noting that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “blew” her 2020 presidential campaign touting one far-left proposal.
“Ask Elizabeth Warren and Medicare-for-All. She blew her campaign up with one speech, all right?”
“I’d love to read a good article on who really was the strategic idiot behind her 2020 presidential campaign, because they were real f—–’ idiots, alright?” he continued, blasting those who were advising Warren.
Carville also said that President Joe Biden has also had difficulties after adopting far-left policies such as lax enforcement of border and immigration laws.
“And why is the border an issue? Because Biden listened to these people early in his term. They weren’t just wrong; they were catastrophically wrong. Understand that,” he said. “These people are not just wrong — they’re literally walking catastrophes. And the faster people realize that, the better off they’re going to be. And they don’t have very much power.”
Carville forcefully called out the progressives in his party in a New York Times interview earlier this year, saying their stances, especially the woke ones, are “too feminine.”
“A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females,” he told Times columnist Maureen Dowd before characterizing them as Debbie Downers. “’Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’”
During a segment on “Fox & Friends” following the announcement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) went through many of Walz’s radical positions.
“Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz reinforces what we already knew: that she’s a dangerous San Francisco liberal. Just consider during the BLM riots in 2020, Tim Walz allowed rioters and arsonists and looters to rampage through Minneapolis. Kamala Harris then turned around and encouraged contributions for the bail fund for the few that were actually arrested,” Cotton said.
“Kamala Harris has said she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration and stands up for illegal aliens and fights for their rights. Tim Walz has turned his state into a sanctuary state where violent illegal felons…he’s given driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, he’s given college tuition to illegal aliens,” Cotton continued. “Kamala Harris is a San Francisco liberal and Tim Walz is a self-professed socialist. He says that one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
