'I can hear James Carville’s head exploding': Gen Z DNC official claps back at Dem critic

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg escalated the firestorm he created this week when he announced a new multimillion-dollar campaign targeting incumbents in his party – an effort he made clear that he isn’t backing down from.

Hogg on Friday jabbed critics inside his party who have slammed his new campaign, including longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who called it “the most insane thing I ever heard.”

“Aren’t we supposed to run against Republicans?" Carville said in remarks critical of Hogg on Wednesday. The DNC official responded directly to Carville with his own question before ripping open the internal party feud even further.

“What’s his plan to deal with our 27% approval rating? That’s my question to him,” Hogg told CNN’s Jake Tapper during an appearance on his show, “The Lead.”

“The fact of the matter is, right now, our party is in a crisis,” he said. Hogg went on to say that the Democratic Party should be propping up a message that encourages people to support them, “not simply because we're not Donald Trump, but because we have a better message.”

But he wasn’t done dressing down Carville, who shot to legendary status among Democrats after leading Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign as chief strategist.

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“Carville believes in a politics of being timid, of hiding,” Hogg said. “I believe in fighting, and that is what people want to see right now from the Democratic Party.”

He mentioned as an example Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) traveling to El Salvador in defense of the wrongly deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

"We can't simply just hide as Carville repeatedly promotes,” Hogg added. “Not to mention the fact that, frankly, he has not won an election since before I was born. I think it's time for some new voices in our party.”

The 25-year-old told Tapper he was born in 2000.

“I can hear James Carville’s head exploding all the way from New Orleans when you called him timid,” Tapper quipped.

The CNN host let Carville know he’s welcome back on his show next week.

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