Many Democrats are celebrating after trash-talking Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) formally announced her bid for the U.S. Senate, but James Carville isn’t among them.
The longtime political strategist rained on the rising star’s parade and suggested that there’s more to pulling off a successful campaign than narcissism and the chasing of social media clout, one of the few who will dare to criticize Crockett and her ghetto babe shtick.
On Thursday’s edition of the “Politics War Room” podcast, the crotchety “Ragin’ Cajun” told co-host Al Hunt that the mouth that never shuts has already broken the “first rule of politics” with her incessant yapping about herself instead of the actual concerns of the voters.
“First of all, she seems like she’s well-educated,” the 81-year-old said. “Seems like she’s got a lot of energy. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics, and that is, in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself.”
Carville added, “If you listen to her talk, it’s a lot more about herself than it is about the voters,” noting that Crockett is hardly making a compelling case for a promotion from another squawking member of the Democratic House menagerie to the much stodgier atmosphere of the upper chamber.
“We know what wins elections,” the party elder continued. “We just do, and what wins elections is not sitting there talking incessantly about yourself. Winning elections is not about how many clicks you get or how much overnight fundraising you do. Winning elections is being part of framing issues and understanding where people come from.”
Carville concluded by saying that he thinks that “Congresswoman Crockett is very good at that, I’ll be very frank.”
Crockett was ridiculed for her campaign launch video, which consists of only a picture of her and President Donald J. Trump saying mean things about her.
This Jasmine Crockett for Senate video is actually beyond parody.
It’s just a montage of Trump saying mean things (many of which are true) about her.
Zero ideas, personality, or substance.
And running as simply an anti-Trump candidate in… Texas.
She is heading for historic… pic.twitter.com/ftsKijMw3e
— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ (@brad_polumbo) December 8, 2025
“There are those that say, ain’t no way we didn’t try it 50 kinds of ways. Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC way. They’re used to telling us what I can’t do, but they have no idea what Crockett’s crew will do. So, I just want to be clear for all the haters in the back. Listen up real loud. We’re gonna get this thing done,” the smack-talking Senate hopeful told supporters in a fiery launch speech, according to CBS News.
As a much younger man, Carville is credited with being the architect of Bill Clinton’s 1992 election win, with his bumper sticker slogan of “It’s the economy stupid” resonating with enough voters to topple incumbent President George H.W. Bush, who had enjoyed record approval ratings only a year before as a result of the first Gulf War.
While the presence of third-party candidate Ross Perot had something to do with the results, Carville was lauded for putting Slick Willie into the White House and has parlayed the success into three decades as one of his party’s most respected voices.
Will Crockett listen? Probably not because to her, he’s just another old cracker.
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