James Carville on Ramping Up the Harris Ground Game and Defeating Trump

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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James Carville is not known for mincing words. Back in 2021, the legendary Democratic strategist ruffled quite a few feathers when he blamed “wokeness” for the party’s electoral defeats. He still hasn’t backed down from that belief—but he’s also willing to accept that Kamala Harris has a lot more to worry about than safe spaces and language policing when it comes to trouncing Donald Trump. One challenge in particular, he tells Brian Stelter on the latest episode of Inside the Hive, is presenting herself a bold persona with a bright new vision in a period of Trump-era malaise. "I think the best construct for her is ‘fresh versus stale,'" Carville says of Harris. "I've said the most thunderous sound in all of politics is the sound of a turning page."

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0:38.8	James, politics is all about salesmanship.
0:41.6	So what is the most effective sales pitch for
0:44.6	Democrats right now? One word. Abotion. Why? We haven't lost an election
0:50.9	so stops. Okay, we just haven't.'t I mean it always cracks me up because
0:55.0	all these people what's wrong with the Democratic Party how to fix the
0:57.6	Democratic Party actually if you like me and you believe the purpose of a political party is to win elections,
1:06.2	we're doing pretty good so far.
1:07.6	That is the raging Cajun himself, James Carval, and I'm Brian Stutter. Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair.
1:16.0	This week we're going inside the Democratic Message Machine now that the presidential election is just about a month away.
1:23.7	As I'm sure you know, Carville is a legendary political strategist dating back to the 80s, famous for
1:29.2	his work with Bill Clinton in 1992 that was chronicled in a film titled The War Room.
1:35.1	Now he's the star of another documentary, this one all about his life, called
1:39.8	Winning is Everything Stupid.
1:42.2	It is premiering on CNN this Saturday, October 5th.
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