CV NEWS FEED // Renowned Democratic strategist James Carville told The New York Times last week that Democrats’ political messaging is “too feminine” and suggested that “woke” rhetoric could cost his party the 2024 election.
The Times’ Maureen Dowd discussed her recent interview with Carville in a Saturday op-ed.
In her piece, Dowd called the longtime political consultant the “mastermind of Bill Clinton’s election.”
In his conversation with Dowd, Carville addressed the problem of President Joe Biden’s low approval rating, currently in the 30’s. Biden is set to face former President Donald Trump on November 5.
Dowd noted: “Lately, [Carville] has been obsessed with Biden bleeding Black male voters.”
The Times columnist wrote that Carville told her he suspects “‘there are too many preachy females’ dominating the culture of his party.”
Carville added: “‘Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’ The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’”
Carville indicated:
If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: “Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?”
Carville also said that, despite his comments about the current Democratic Party, he “actually like[s] Biden.”
The Louisiana-raised political operative called the embattled president “a tenacious guy.” He went on to claim that Biden “doesn’t have an iota of elitism” and “doesn’t even know what ‘woke’ is.”
“[Biden has] been demonstrably the best president that Black America’s ever had, Clinton and Obama included,” Carville told Dowd.
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Per The New York Post, a New York Times / Siena College poll taken late last month “found that Trump, benefitting from a boost in support from black and Hispanic voters, would handily win a rematch against Biden – 48% to 43%.”
Only 66% of the poll’s black respondents indicated they would vote for Biden if the election was held on the day they were surveyed – a drastically lower number than past black turnouts for Democratic candidates.
If the trend holds until November 5, Biden would receive the smallest percentage of the black vote among any Democratic presidential nominee since the 1960s – including the likes of George McGovern and Walter Mondale, who both lost in 49-state landslides.
As CatholicVote previously reported, the same poll also “found that Trump is leading Biden among Hispanic voters by a convincing six points.”
“No Republican presidential nominee has won a majority of the Hispanic vote in American history,” CatholicVote emphasized.
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Carville is arguably best known for coining the phrase “[It’s] the economy, stupid,” during the 1992 election cycle while serving as the chief strategist on the campaign of the Democratic nominee, then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
Observers at the time highlighted the phrase as part of a successful Democratic messaging campaign culminating in the party coming from behind and retaking the White House for the first time in 12 years.
Clinton was originally seen as an underdog in a hotly-contested three-way race.
Five months before the election, the once-little-known governor was polling in third place, trailing both incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot. Clinton ended up winning the election by a comfortable 5.5-point margin.
The New York Post reported that Carville is currently “back on the trail raising money for Democrats as well as working on a documentary.”
Breitbart further noted that “[w]hile Carville still works for Democrats, he has been notoriously outspoken on their shortcomings in messaging.”
Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, took to X (formerly Twitter) Sunday night to react to the longtime strategist accusing their shared party of having “too many preachy females.”
“Maybe he should start a podcast about it,” the socialist lawmaker quipped. “I hear men are really underrepresented in that space.”
In the replies to Ocasio-Cortez’s post, many observers argued that the high-profile congresswoman inadvertently proved Carville’s point.
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