Carville Pushes Back When CNN’s Jake Tapper Still ‘Gives The Edge To Trump’ Because ‘It’s A Change Election’
Outspoken Democratic commentator James Carville pushed back when CNN anchor Jake Tapper said you’d still “give the edge to Trump” over Vice President Kamala Harris “just because it’s a change election” and Trump “has been leading in the polls.”
VP Harris held her first rally with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) hours after news broke that Walz would be the VP nominee.
On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Tapper interviewed Carville as they awaited the start of that rally in Philadelphia and drew pushback on several issues.
Carville bristled at GOP accusations that Democrats “wouldn’t tolerate a Jewish candidate,” as well as Tapper’s assertion that Trump carries the edge in “a change election”:
TAPPER: Do you think that as Republicans and some commentators have suggested, not picking Shapiro was Kamala Harris bowing to the left who — the people who wouldn’t tolerate a more or more centrist candidate or even perhaps wouldn’t tolerate a Jewish candidate?
CARVILLE: I don’t know Joe Lieberman here, you know I’m not — you’re not so old, so young. You can remember 2000, I don’t think Joe Lieberman cost us 5,000 votes. The rule is that Vice President Harris husband is Jewish, that somebody can confirm that, Atlanta to fact check, maybe David Dale or somebody like that. So, I think all of this is a talk is, frankly, doesn’t add up from me. We got our pick, the Vice President made that choice.
We got a EA number 0E4 (ph) and I’m ready to fall in line with our future command in chief and that’s Sergeant Walz. Let’s go. Let’s grab our piece and go off the hill.
TAPPER: What are — what do you recommend that Harris and Walz do? There’s less than 100 days to go. Still at this at this moment, I think that you would give the edge to Trump, just because it’s a change election, and he has been leading in the polls. Harris is a new candidate. She still hasn’t done an interview.
She still hasn’t done a press conference. Who knows what’s going to happen? What would you recommend that the Democratic ticket do?
CARVILLE: Well, first of all, not call Trump a change candidate. He’s a backwards candidate. We’re not talking about four years from now. He wants to talk about four years ago. And I think that’s a pretty simple dynamic on our part.
And what I’d like to see him is come down tough on the side of consumers. Come down tough on corporate price fixing and price gouging. I think this would be something that would be eminently beneficial. And let’s get the convention behind us. So Trump — I don’t think Trump wants to debate. JD Vance don’t want to get within 50 miles of Governor Walz, I can tell you that.
So we got, there’s a lot of football left to play here, and I’m excited. And I’m tired of banging my helmet against the locker, and let’s go out and play some ball. We’re ready. We’re excited, Jake, we really are. And I got mayor of Philadelphia, I don’t know her, but man, she’s full of — she’s on fire.
Harris has been gaining or leading Trump consistently in polls since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.
