Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville didn’t hold back his thoughts on the new multimillion campaign targeting incumbents in his party – an effort launched by Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg.
“Well, it's the most insane thing,” Carville said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
Carville unleashed his fury with the plan to raise $20 million to oust Democratic incumbents in safe districts, announced as part of an effort by the grassroots organization co-founded by Hogg, who he sharply criticized in a self-described on-air “rant.”
“Well, I don't know, Jake, I went to law school a long time ago, but he is an officer of the Democratic National Committee…and so he has a fiduciary duty to the Democratic Party, and he's going to raise $20 million to primary Democrats?" an indignant Carville asked. “Does he really think the problem that we're facing in the United States today is because we got 65-year-old Democrats in office? Why don't you take on a Republican? That's your job.”
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“The most insane thing I ever heard is the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee is spending $20 million running against other Democrats,” he added of Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “Aren’t we supposed to run against Republicans?"
Carville ended his sound-off by injecting his own flare of self-deprecating humor.
“I mean, maybe I’m old-fashioned, antiquated, I’m not part of the hip generation…But I actually thought our job was to beat Republicans. How quaint, how quaint of me,” he said. “But I don't think I’m going to change.”
