Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has admitted he’s “scared to death” that President Donald Trump will soar to victory on Election Day.
Carville, who led Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 presidential campaign, said he’s “very, very concerned” that Democrat nominee Kamala Harris will lose to Trump.
During a Wednesday interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Carville urged Vice President Harris to get more aggressive in the last few weeks of her campaign.
“The only thing I feel is the election is coming Nov. 5th,” Carville told Melber.
“I’m scared to death,” he admitted.
“I’m very, very concerned.”
Carville made the case that Harris only had around 20 days left to boost her messaging.
He argues that Hurricane Milton will likely dominate coverage for the next few days.
“They need to be sharp,” he said of Harris’s campaign.
“They need to be aggressive.
“They need to stop answering questions and start asking questions.
“They’re doing all this and sitting down with ‘60 Minutes’ and sitting down with Colbert and sitting down — no matter what, if I come on your show, you will ask me the questions.
“If I have a press conference, I get to ask the questions,” he said.
“You’d like to see her do more press conferences?” Melber asked.
Carville said he wanted Harris to have more events and control the narrative, telling Melber:
“Where she’s out saying, ‘What is JD Vance talking about that Trump saved ObamaCare? He tried to destroy it at every point.’
“I would put President Obama out to make that.
“He only has a 92% approval with Democrats,” Carville said.
“He is only the author, the father, of 23 million people having insurance.”
Obama started campaigning for Harris on Thursday in Pennsylvania.
Carville also argued Democrats were not countering the Trump-Vance campaign’s messaging enough.
“And I think she and the whole campaign need to be much more aggressive and much less passive than they are,” he said.
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Harris has yet to conduct a formal press conference in the 81 days since becoming the Democrat nominee following President Biden’s exit from the race.
During his “Politics War Room” podcast last week, Carville said Harris should be going after Vance and Trump for the ObamaCare comments.
He called Vance’s claim “an out-and-out lie.”
Carville repeatedly asked why Harris herself wasn’t out in the media talking about it.
“Why isn’t Harris herself out today talking about that?” Carville said during the podcast.
“Get off your a–. Move, move, move!”
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