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“Well, I’ve given up. Every time I come on I want to really talk to you about substantive issues. I don’t want to talk to you about this clown sh*t.”
— James Carville, when asked on a podcast about Laura Loomer.
“The most thunderous sound in all of American politics is the sound of a turning page.”
— James Carville, in an interview with the New Republic.
“He has a shark-like survival instinct. And he knows that he’s not having the same effect as he used to. He knows that Harris has become what he’s always wanted to be, is the kind of hot item…. He’s not the new kid on the block anymore, and he’s struggling to regain that.”
— Democratic strategist James Carville told the New Republic that Donald Trump “knows he’s in deep trouble” — and it’s “driving him crazy.”
“You cannot tell me that anybody 60 years old would trade brains with Herschel Walker, ’cause you wouldn’t.”
— James Carville, in an interview with Vanity Fair.
“Let’s shut this puppy down, and let’s move on and worry about November. This thing is decided. There’s no reason to keep it going, not even a day longer.”
— James Carville, on MSNBC, arguing Joe Biden has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I don’t care how experienced you are. I don’t care how many good people you have around you. That is not a job for 80-year-olds.”
— James Carville, in a podcast interview with David Axelrod, on Joe Biden’s candidacy for president.
I just didn’t think that a modern American party was capable of suicide. I thought that something would happen, that somebody would think of a way to stop this. And they couldn’t. I think that they wanted to but they couldn’t. … And most of the Republicans that I talk to, which are quite a few, they are not so much worried about losing the election as I think they are about losing an entire generation. No one knows how much damage that Trump is going to cause the Republican Party beyond 2016. It is really something, to watch a party just march right over a cliff, and no one can stop them.
— Political strategist James Carville, telling Vanity Fair that the Republican party is committing suicide.
“These guys have been outflanked, outmaneuvered, outsmarted, and they’re not taking it very well. They’re just going to have to stand there and just get beat because that’s what’s going to happen to Trump. He’s just getting slapped around every time you turn around. … If anything, he’s pretty stupid when it comes to politics.
— James Carville, saying he is not impressed with Donald Trump’s political skills, The Hill reports.
If Jeb Bush loses New Hampshire, they’ll get Mitt Romney back in the race.
— James Carville, quoted by the Washington Post.
