James Carville says Dems need a lot better candidate in 2028 than Kamala Harris

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville spoke candidly about his botched prediction that then-Vice President Kamala Harris would win the 2024 presidential election.In the final weeks of the election cycle, Carville made the media rounds expressing confidence that Democrats would keep President Donald Trump out of the White House, even penning an op-ed in The New York Times titled “Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”“The polls looked even, alright? I thought that Harris had more money.She also had more storefront locations, she had more doorknockers, definitely had better surrogates with two ex-presidents out there.

Trump was going around with Scott Baio or something….And I thought a combination of all of that would be worth a point and a half.

It was not,” Carville told Fox News Digital in an interview. Coincidentally, Trump ended up winning the popular vote by a point and a half over Harris and ultimately won the presidency with 312 electoral votes. “You relearn the oldest lesson in politics.The greatest motivator of turnout, of voting, of persuasion is a reason.

If you don’t have a reason, you can’t [win],” Carville said.“People had a reason to vote for Trump.

The one reason that they were looking for, I should have taken this into more account, was people wanted some change.”Carville recalled Harris’ now-infamous appearance on “The View” when she was asked what he called the “money question:” What would she have done differently from President Joe Biden? She responded, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”“She completely flubs it,” Carville said.“Well, 70% of people, we’ll have time to argue whether they were right or wrong, 70% of people want something different.

Well, give it to them!… [Say] anything you want other than ‘I can’t think of anything.’ Worse answer ever given.Ever given.”Since her defeat against Trump, Harris has already been generating buzz for a 2028 ru...