James Carville, the famend Democratic strategist who famously helped elect Invoice Clinton to the White Home in 1992, says his occasion has veered dangerously offtrack — and has deserted the agricultural voting bloc Democrats must win presidential elections.
The co-host of the “Politics War Room” podcast responded in Thursday’s episode to a listener who requested whether or not rural voters might be “hurt” by President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariffs, and if now’s “the time for Democrats to campaign hard in rural areas,” prompting Carville’s pissed off reply.
“I think it was always the time for Democrats to campaign hard in rural areas,” he replied.
“I don’t know how the party ever got away from that,” the longtime strategist continued. “Some of its more urbanist members and commentators lived in a folly of a world that we could exist in elections by just concentrating on large urban areas.”
Carville argued Democrats squandered a possibility to provoke rural voters forward of the 2024 election, which noticed Trump win the favored vote and Electoral School, and pleaded that members of the occasion should “reintroduce ourselves to rural America” earlier than 2028.
The strategist went on to notice that “large swaths” of Individuals who don’t reside in main metropolitan areas “feel like the Democratic Party doesn’t see them, doesn’t talk to them, or doesn’t prioritize them” — and launched right into a tirade about that frustration.
“The stupidity of, ‘We got to be the most progressive, self-righteous, moralistic people in the world,’” Carville lamented Thursday. “And, you know, ‘People that live in rural America are just fat, lazy and stupid,’ which is decidedly not true.”
“But that’s the way that some of the urbanist elements of our party have tried to come across,” he continued. “And it’s stupid and they ought to apologize to the world for being so goddamn stupid.”
Harris carried out worse in rural areas in the course of the 2024 election than former President Joe Biden did in 2020, with organizers on the bottom noting after her loss to Trump that the Harris marketing campaign’s effort to achieve these voters “just wasn’t enough.”
Whereas neither she nor 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton publicly known as rural voters “fat,” “lazy” or “stupid” as Carville urged Democratic leaders have carried out, Clinton herself has stated her description of Trump supporters as “deplorables” forward of the 2016 election “handed him a political gift.”
Go Advert-Free — And Shield The Free Press
Already contributed? Log in to cover these messages.
Carville, who was “certain” Harris would defeat Trump, just lately defended his reasoning.
