Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has admitted his disappointment that President Joe Biden is running for re-election in November.
Carville made the admission during an interview on 77 WABC radio’s “The Cats Roundtable” on Sunday.
“We have a choice to make in November,” Carville said.
“It isn’t the choice I was crazy about.”
“I was very public that I thought that President Biden should not run for re-election,” Carville added.
“But he did — it’s him and Trump.”
Carville, the senior advisor on Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, then noted that he would support Biden but only because he’s the Democrat candidate.
“But I’m 1000% behind President Biden,” he added.
“He’s the choice I got.”
Radio host John Catsimatidis said that Carville’s wife, longtime Republican strategist Mary Matalin, disagreed with her Democrat husband over his support for Biden.
“We have come to armistice where we generally try to stay away from it,” Carville said of his political disagreements with his wife, in the clip flagged by the New York Post.
Carville said Biden was not his ideal choice for the leader of the Democrats.
However, the good news for his party was that there are many other politicians who could potentially take over.
“The under-appreciated thing about the current state of the Democratic Party is there is [an] enormous … number of current people,” Carville said, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, and Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-GA) on his list of people to watch, among others.
“There is a lot of talent and a lot of it is young and vigorous and energetic,” he said.
Carville also revealed what concerns him most about the current generation of Americans is a general lack of interest in public service and public life.
“My greatest fear in the United States is that young people are disengaging,” he said.
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Carville has been expressing the Democrats’ growing concerns about Biden’s chances against President Donald Trump in the November election.
As Slay News reported last week, Carville called on the corporate media to ramp up anti-Trump propaganda to help Biden.
Carville said the media must push more “slanted coverage.”
“F**k your objectivity,” Carville raged.
Earlier this year, Carville even suggested that Democrats may need to assassinate Trump to help Biden win.
In March Carville appeared on CNN with host Anderson Cooper.
During the interview, Carville suggested that Biden’s “surrogates” should engage in “wet work” on his behalf against Trump.
Carville himself admitted that “wet work” means “to take a guy out.”
