James Carville is a political strategist who helped engineer Bill Clinton’s victorious 1992 presidential campaign. He is the co-host of 2020 Politics War Room podcast with Al Hunt.
Posted on 10/09/2020 7:08:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It feels like the majority of people who believe Trump can win again in 2020 are Democrats, for better or for worse.
Many years ago, George Mitchell, the Senate Democratic majority leader in the 1990s, told me, “The only people who believe the speeches of Republican senators are Democratic senators.”
I love my party. And I’m proud of what we stand for: equality, economic dignity, health care as a human right, among other things. But when it comes to practicing politics, the Democrats are a party ridden with crushing anxiety and self-doubt, even if the winds of fate are sailing entirely in our direction. Throughout the Trump era, I’ve seen us suffer time and again a terrible case of political amnesia.
What has happened over the last four years has presented a once in a generation opportunity for Democrats to run up the score against a party that has become the most dangerous threat to American life we’ve faced since World War II. Quite honestly, it’s unlikely we keep retired military generals and urban teenagers in the same coalition forever. But from this moment of national peril, we can hope to repair the foundations of our government and push our country forward with giant bounds of progress.
So, in these final weeks before the election, second-guessing Democrats need to stop chasing the tails of the daily news cycle. I’ve spent a lifetime in politics, I've seen a lot of elections, and have had my fair share of sleepless nights. But this race is different. Stay energized, shake off the 2016 PTSD, sleep well. It’s time to think bigger. This November, we have a chance to not just win, but win in such a way that we will be able to change the trajectory of America — for the better.
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James Carville is a political strategist who helped engineer Bill Clinton’s victorious 1992 presidential campaign. He is the co-host of 2020 Politics War Room podcast with Al Hunt.
Seems like if they have to drag this guy out of mothballs, can’t be in the bag for them.
Just ask President Hillary Clinton about the reliability of the polls.
Is Biden painting his basement white?
In the event that Sleepy Joe manages to steal the election, would he not be in the White Basement?
LOLOLOLOL! When carvelle speaks, nobody listens.
James I have seen polls that tell the exact opposite. Many Democrats are going to be unemployed. Stop relying on the media as it rots your brain!
No, just another black lady is doing the painting for him like the one who stocked his supermarket shelves so he could hide out there /sarc
Will NEVER happen.
The Delusional Lying Left continues in their delusional deceived state of mind. They will lose and will continue to deny their defeat and the reasons why
Old snakehead is nervous. A bureaucracy filled with leftists, the educational establishment subsumed, and media too, why isn’t Joe 50 points ahead?
Trump is going to win
Orders from Beijing will eventually deal with the urban teenagers. They had had little trouble exterminating far more intelligent pests in Hong Kong, when the crisis reached a head.
FR’s resident pearl clutchers will be along shortly to lament this devastating news for Trump!
These polls and BS stories from the Fake News is a repeat of 2016! Some here still trust the Fake News!
You’re a has been Jimmy. No one cares what you say!
You can’t always dismiss polls. I understand this on FR who are sounding the alarm about ignoring them in that we are: 1) Being arrogant and overconfident; 2) the polls aren’t always wrong; and 3) just because they were wrong in 2016 doesn’t mean they are wrong now.
All valid points.
But I can’t get by this. The media has been absolutely relentlessly negative and hostile to Trump. We have never seen anything like this. Could we honestly expect that media and their polling arms to ever produce a poll that says anything other than Trump is losing?
We may as well not have polls at this point. Instead we are left to what our own experiences tell us. And those vary from place to place to minute to minute. We are flying blind here.
James Carville.....
The man really improved his looks when he put that garbage can over his head.
Put a wastebasket on your head, James.
Part of that 40-year run of uninterrupted Democrat rule, eh, James?
Yes and you said Nelson wouldn’t lose Florida either
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