Carville issues rebuke to Kamala Harris: 'No Democrat wants to hear from you'
Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday slammed former Vice President Harris for lashing out against party members while promoting her book that discusses life behind the scenes while on the 2024 campaign trail.
“Let me be very clear here. No one that had anything to do with 2024, no Democrat wants to hear from you. We all voted for you,” Carville told listeners on his “Politics War Room” podcast.
“OK, not Hunter Biden, not Harris, not Tim Walz, not the consultants, not anything. 2024 has left such a lingering bad taste in Democrats … just get out of the way,” he added.
His comments echo those of other Democratic strategists who said Harris’s new book picks fights with past supporters and the party as it takes new strides to move forward after a landslide November loss.
Garry South, a Democratic strategist based in California, previously told The Hill the book shows she’s “blaming everyone but herself for her loss.”
“It is a curiously negative and ungracious to me for someone who reportedly thinks she can run again in 2028,” South added.
Harris has said she’s not done with politics but has not confirmed whether she will run for president again in 2028.
The former vice president has shied away from directly pointing to former President Biden’s decision to step aside months after entering the race as a reason for her loss, but in her book, she wrote about Biden's loss of mobility while aging in office.
“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” Harris said in an excerpt for “107 Days.”
“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
In another passage, she wrote, “at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”
She also said that those close to the former president “should have realized that any campaign was a bridge too far.”