The Ragin’ Cajun appeared to be all bluster when afforded the opportunity to sound off on one of the Democrats who “hates” him while steering the party toward Marxism.
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Between the cognitive decline of former President Joe Biden and the word salad buffet presented by former Vice President Kamala Harris, the leadership vacuum left by “Weekend at Bernie’s” hasn’t been the only consequence. Internal struggles over the direction of the Democrats have seen talking heads like James Carville decry Democratic Socialists of America, who balked at the chance to criticize Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Shifting from discussing New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D) position in the party, Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) recent “embarrassing” trip to Michigan as he teed up an opportunity to counter negativity from El-Sayed.
“Okay, is the rest of your party moving in the right direction?” asked Watters. “We saw Gavin Newsom fly to Michigan to kiss this guy’s ring. This guy Abdul, who calls you names, Carville. He hates you.”
Before reminding how he supported El-Sayed’s primary opponent, Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D), the longtime political strategist shrugged off the dig, “So what? They don’t like me. I don’t dislike them.”
The change in attitude comes as Carville not only stood against El-Sayed’s campaign, but he’d also sounded off in regard to the nominee’s key surrogate, terrorist sympathizing Hasan Piker, “If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I’m out of here. I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with that guy.”
Despite all his talk of distancing himself from the party over the expanded influence of the DSA, the strategist came out in support of El-Sayed over his general election opponent, former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers (R).
During an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Carville expressed, “El-Sayed himself has said the Democrats is as much of a problem as the Republicans, which I disagree with. But when I look at him, and I look at Mike Rogers, who’s a lackey for the entire pharmaceutical industry, who is an election denier, then I’m gonna take El-Sayed every time.”
“Would I take him in a vacuum? Probably not, but against a clown like Rogers, who is an election denier running for the United States in the year 2026, who has never at once opposed the interests of Big Pharma. Yeah, I’m gonna be for El-Sayed,” he added.
On the flip side, the nominee previously responded to Carville’s suggestion he would bail on the party during a stream with Piker. The Senate hopeful said, “Part of me is like, why does anybody still listen to James Carville? He said one smart thing once, which he seems to have forgotten, which is, ‘It’s the economy, stupid.'”
As for Ocasio-Cortez, Watters’ guest also downplayed her position to lead the party further left, suggesting her tempered presentation was akin to an actual change in policy. “Look, there was a place where part of the country went crazy in 2019, ’20, ’21, ’22. I told them they were crazy. And to her credit, she doesn’t talk like that anymore. Good, you’ve grown. We like that. You’re moving in the right direction. And that’s always a good thing.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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