James, James, James. You still haven’t caught on, have you? On Saturday, on “The Bulwark Podcast” (because of course, it was), James Carville gave what he no doubt thought of as a post-mortem of last week’s presidential election, and boy, did he come up with some doozies.
Carville unpacked Harris’s defeat in an interview released Saturday on “The Bulwark Podcast” with Tim Miller.
“By the way, she had every advantage. We had a united party, from Dick Cheney to AOC, everybody was, whatever you want to do is fine,” Carville said, referring to the former Republican vice president and to progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), both of whom backed Harris’s campaign.
“We had more people on the ground. We had more volunteers, we had more money, all right? We had more surrogates, but we didn’t have a reason,” Carville continued.
Dick Cheney? James, you saw Dick Cheney as an advantage? Seriously? I know you were talking to the… people at The Bulwark, but come on!
And Kamala Harris had every advantage? Well, there was at least one advantage she was missing — being a good candidate. James, in case you didn’t know, that kind of cancels out any other advantage she may have had.
He goes on:
Carville said the campaign was strong but that “since the dawn of time,” no number of resources or technology could overcome lacking a reason to vote for a candidate.
“You cannot not have a reason and beat it with technology, or beat it with volunteers, or do that,” Carville continued. “The overall message here, Tim: A reason, and she didn’t give us a reason.”
Besides the rather awkward double negative, Carville actually has a point here: Kamala Harris didn’t give people any particular reason to vote for her other than her melanin content, her plumbing, and “OMG OMG TRUMP IS A NAZI!”
Not a winning formula. And that’s funny because James Carville was savvy enough back in the day to be one of the chief architects of Bill Clinton’s two successful campaigns.
Time clearly hasn’t been kind to the man.
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Look, Kamala Harris’ loss went far deeper than “not having a reason to vote for her.” There were all too many reasons to vote against her: her support for transgender surgeries at taxpayer expense for prison inmates, her utterly failed stint as Joe Biden’s “border czar” that saw millions of illegal aliens pouring into the United States, just to name a couple.
But when James Carville says “every advantage,” he not only missed those, but he also missed the really glaring disadvantage suffered by the Queen of Word Salads: She’s not likable.
As in: People don’t like her.
One of the major advantages both Donald Trump and JD Vance have is the ability to connect with people. Real people, not uber celebrities, political operatives, and paid attendees, but real people. Trump’s stint at McDonalds, his ride in the garbage truck, his appearance on Joe Rogan, and virtually every public appearance he made proved that. And JD Vance, while he has been a senator and now is the Vice President-elect, came from the humblest of humble beginnings, and it still shows in his every interaction.
Kamala Harris, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to like people all that much. Her only interactions are fake — carefully scripted and stage-managed. There is nothing genuine about here, and people sure saw through that.
So, James, sure, Kamala had every advantage from The Bulwark’s point of view. But last Tuesday sure told you very clearly that she didn’t have any of the advantages she needed to stave off one of the biggest presidential trouncings in years.
