Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) made it clear that he wasn’t buying veteran Democrat strategist James Carville’s analysis going into the 2024 presidential election — namely his claim that President Joe Biden’s chances of winning were less than stellar.
Fetterman called Carville out directly during an interview with POLITICO that was published on Wednesday, while responding to questions about Biden’s chances in Pennsylvania.
“All I do know is that the president will win Pennsylvania. And I do believe if he wins Pennsylvania, and I believe he will, he will be a second-term president,” Fetterman said, before pivoting to address Carville’s assessment of the situation.
“There’s a whole lifetime in politics between now and next November as well. I’m not worried about that. And I’m very vocal about this, too, while there are Democrats that are being very critical about the president,” Fetterman continued. “I’ll use this [as] another opportunity to tell James Carville to shut the f*** up. Like I said, my man hasn’t been relevant since grunge was a thing. And I don’t know why he believes it’s helpful to say these kinds of things about an incredibly difficult circumstance with an incredibly strong and decent and excellent president. I’ll never understand that.”
Carville responded by telling the outlet that other senators — some of whom have asked him to advise or even campaign with them — had not “gotten the memo yet” regarding his irrelevance. “I’m glad he’s feeling better,” Carville said of Fetterman.
The longtime Democratic strategist had delivered a much gloomier forecast during a December 13 interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, arguing that Biden would likely lose if the election had been held that day.
“It sounds to me like you think if the election were held today, Biden would lose,” Hunt prompted, and Carville agreed with her assessment.
“Me and everybody else,” he said.
Carville has been sounding the alarm on that front for months, telling comedian Bill Maher in late September, “Let’s assume the election was November the third of this year and the candidates are Joe Biden, the Democrat, Donald Trump, the Republican, Joe Manchin, and Larry Hogan, No Labels, and Cornel West. Trump would be a betting favorite.”
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