Recently-elected Democratic National Convention Vice Chair David Hogg and veteran Democratic strategist James Carville vented their feud with a heated debate on the Tara Palmeri Show on Wednesday, in which Carville blasted Hogg's plans to encourage primary challenges to certain long-time Democratic incumbents.
Hogg, a Gen Z student activist and school shooting survivor who was elected to the DNC at the start of the year, has pushed people to donate to his PAC, Leaders We Deserve, to elect more young people and to mount contests in districts where he believes Democratic incumbents are complacent and not representing their voters.
Carville, for his part, has blasted the idea as "insane" and called Hogg a "twerp." Their argument came to a head on Palmeri's show.
"You have to understand the nuance here," said Hogg.
"There's no nuance to it, it's just flat-out wrong," said Carville. "It's flat-out wrong."
"What is your plan to deal with our abominable approval rating?" shot back Hogg.
"Win elections," he snapped back, as Hogg tried to speak. "Win elections, you see, against Republicans. Let me finish, okay? Let me finish. You want my strategy? It's to win elections. It's not to win an election in Queens, okay, which you don't ever run against a Republican. It is to help Democrats win elections."
"By the way, I called on Joe Biden to drop out of the race in 2022," he added. "Where were you? Where was the young, cool generation? Did they step in and say something? I spoke out against the horrific language of identity politics. Where was everybody else? I said we should have a contested convention. No one else came out, other than President Obama ... so I'm just saying, I want to beat Republicans. I don't want to beat Democrats."
Hogg's approach has ruffled feathers with many other party strategists and officials, and now faces a formal complaint calling the process that elected him to DNC leadership unfair and calling for a re-vote.
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