All posts tagged "James Carville"

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said Kimberly Guilfoyle ignored a lesson from first lady Melania Trump, and now she's paying for it.

In Thursday's episode of "Politics War Room," Carville said Guilfoyle, Trump's ambassador to Greece, should have gotten her money up front the way the first lady did instead of billing a donor after the fact.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle pressed Trump donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to her American Express account days before her confirmation hearing....

Democratic strategist James Carville says one Virginia House race could decide which party controls the chamber next year.

"Eugene's race IS the map," Carville wrote in an email sent Sunday by the re-election campaign of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.). "Hold this seat, and Democrats have a real path to the House majority. Lose, and we're cooked."

Vindman, a retired Army officer who served on the National Security Council, won Virginia's 7th Congressional District in 2024 in one of that year's most competitive House races. Carville wrote that this year's race will be just as close....

Veteran political strategist James Carville turned a boast by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about Congress into a punchline by simply agreeing with him.

On the latest episode of "Politics War Room," Carville and co-host Al Hunt zeroed in on Johnson's claim that the current Congress was the most productive since Harry Truman's in 1948, a comparison that collapsed the moment anyone checked the history. Carville and Hunt were sizing up Republican vulnerabilities heading into the midterms, with President Donald Trump's approval sitting at 36 percent.

"Speaker Johnson's expertise does not extend to history," Hunt said. "That was the do-nothing Congress."...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville says President Donald Trump is walking into a trap of his own making with his midterm convention 'scam.'

Speaking on a Wednesday episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Carville argued that the two-day Dallas gathering set for September 9-10 will only supercharge an already energized Democratic electorate while setting Republican money on fire. Carville called on Democrats to welcome the spectacle and push the media to cover it relentlessly.

"The stupidest s— I hear is we shouldn't give them platforms," Carville told The Daily Beast Podcast host Sarah Ewall-Wice. "And for God's sake, cover this convention wall to wall. It's the most beneficial thing we got going."...

Veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville predicted that President Donald Trump would leave by April and thereby weaken Vice President JD Vance.

In a Friday episode of the Politics War Room podcast, Carville continued pushing that Trump will resign and leave the White House because he gets fed up with the job, a prediction he made earlier this year.

However, Carville said the move will really hurt Vance. Carville has previously predicted that Democrats will win the House and the Senate in the November midterms, and he factored that into his damning vision of the Vance White House....

Veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville described how to sink the GOP's South Carolina nominee for the Senate, Darline Graham.

In a Wednesday episode of Politics War Room, Carville suggested that the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat, Annie Andrews, can beat Graham, who's endorsed by President Donald Trump and won the GOP runoff on Tuesday. Carville's strategy plays off Graham's faux pas during her debate with her GOP runoff opponent, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), where she admitted that she's "not that informed on national security."

"If I were Annie Andrews' campaign manager, right now, this moment, I would send a communication to Darline Graham's campaign manager, and it would be as follows," Carville explained. "Dear sir, madame, whatever the case is, congratulations on your recent primary victory."...