James Carville warns Trump plotting to 'provoke a race war' at GOP's MN 'convention'
JANUARY 11, 2014: Democratic pundit and media personality James Carville speaks in a book talk at the National Press Club. (Shutterstock)
January 23, 2026
President Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes are gearing up to try to provoke a "race war" over his Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday evening.
And the key moment he's going to try to do it, Carville argued, is during the "convention" Republicans are arranging in Minneapolis this summer, an unusual move outside of a presidential year that Trump is hoping can juice his flagging numbers ahead of the midterms.
"James, what is your headline for the week, the polling and these protests tonight?" asked Melber.
"Well, let's talk about Trump at Davos and his midnight nocturnal tweets," said Carville. "He's a flea-bitten dog baying at the moon. Okay, I apologize, kennel clubs and dog lovers, I don't mean to drag the reputation of flea-bitten dogs through the mud, but it's the best metaphor I could come up with. He's just howling and howling and howling, and you can't reason with him. Oh, that's 238,855 miles away. It can't hurt you. It's orbiting the Earth, and Earth orbits the Sun. You're talking to a flea-bitten dog.
"I'm serious. It makes no sense," Carville continued. "And it's going to continue to make no sense. And you can't figure it out, Ari. And the big news in which you look at your story in Minneapolis, the Republicans are going to claim they're going to have a midterm mini-convention with Trump attending. They're going to go to Minneapolis, and he's going to try to provoke a race war."
"Listen to me," he added. "This summer, the Republicans will go to Minneapolis. He's going to try to provoke a race war ... he's going to go to Minneapolis to try to provoke these people in all over, and it's going to be summertime, and the weather's going to be good. And it's, it's — he's trying to create a race war. I don't think he will succeed because I don't think people will take the bait. But they'd better be warned. I'm serious."
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