Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday called for Vice President Kamala Harris to tell the “progressive left” to “go fuck themselves” because they doom campaigns.
Harris previously championed progressive policies and rhetoric, such as backing a fracking ban, likening Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Ku Klux Klan and praising the “Defund the Police” movement, but has reversed some of these positions since becoming the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” said the “progressive left” is “dead ass wrong” on all issues and that the vice president should fight them off during her 2024 campaign.
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“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. On literally every issue, they’re dead ass wrong,” Carville said. “Ask Elizabeth Warren about Medicare for All. She blew her campaign up with one speech. Alright, ask the ‘defund the police’ people … I’d love to read a good article on who really was the strategic idiot behind her 2020 presidential campaign, because they were real fuckin’ idiots, alright?”
“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,” he continued. “Understand that. These people are not just wrong — they’re really walking catastrophes. And the fastest people realize that, the better off they’re going to be. And they don’t have very much power. I wish she’d tell them all to go fuck themselves … Their power is totally exaggerated — they can’t win an election outside of a D+25 district.”
Harris also advanced several left-wing pieces of legislation during her time in the Senate, such as government workforce diversity, environmental justice, eviction pauses and work authorization for certain illegally present migrants.
Harris’ campaign says that she no longer supports a fracking ban, The Hill reported. Her campaign has also argued that the vice president backed Biden’s requests for more funding for border enforcement, according to The New York Times.
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