Democratic strategist James Carville told Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Thursday episode of his podcast to exit the Democratic Party after her comments against white men resurfaced.
A clip from a 2018 Al Jazeera interview resurfaced and went viral on X Sunday, wherein Omar asserted the U.S. “should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”
Carville, on “Politics War Room,” read Omar’s quote and then told her she should not be a Democrat as it is a poor political strategy for the party’s representatives to demonize whole groups of Americans, let alone one that makes up such a significant portion of the country.
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“Lady, why don’t you just get out the Democratic Party? Honestly, start your own movement. All right, let’s do the simple math … Roughly 69% of the people going to vote in November, maybe more — let’s do 70% for just round math — are going to be white,” Carville said. “Of that, 48%, maybe a little more, are going to be male. So that’s roughly — let’s just call it 33.3% of the entire election. Well, let’s just run against them, ’cause that’s so goddamn smart. All right, so now we’re going to have a campaign by the progressive left against white men, who vote about a third of everybody that votes in an election.”
“Why don’t you, lady, start your own party? And then when it’s over, if you want to caucus with the Democrats, fine. We agree with a lot of things that you do. But we don’t believe we ought to be running against white men. In fact, we don’t think we ought to be running against any gender, any ethnic group, any race, any religion or anything else,” he continued. “Goddamn, these people are just helpless. They cannot be helped. There’s nothing you can do to help them. They don’t want to be helped. And if they had any guts, they’d start their own goddamn political party and get out of ours. I’m sorry.”
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45% want the Democratic Party to be “more moderate,” according to Gallup polling released in February.
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Carville previously suggested in an April Politicon video that perhaps far-left individuals should formally break away from the Democratic Party, saying they hurt the party’s appeal.
“I don’t quite understand why you’re so anxious to have the word ‘Democrat’ in the description of what you do. But maybe we can have an amicable split here and you go your way and we go our way,” he said at the time. “And after the election, we come together and see how much common ground we can find.”
Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn argued Wednesday that Democrats are struggling politically in part due to Americans perceiving them “as purely partisan, but off the deep end on some policy issues.”
March polling by NBC News and CNN/SSRS found Democrats with all-time low popularity ratings — 27% and 29%, respectively.
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