Carville: Harris Campaign’s ‘Best Day’ Has Already Passed
Jul 25, 2024 16:57:53 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jul 25, 2024 16:57:53 GMT -5
Ex-Clinton Strategist James Carville: Kamala Harris Campaign’s ‘Best Day’ Has Already Passed
Frank Bergman
July 25, 2024 - 4:25 pm
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has warned that the “best day” of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is already behind her.
Carville, the lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, issued the warning during an interview on “The Don Lemon Show.”
He told the disgraced former CNN anchor that the initial excitement about Harris has already died down since she launched her campaign on Sunday.
As predicted by Slay News, Democrat President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign with a Sunday post on X.
Shortly after, “Biden” added another X post to endorse Harris as his replacement.
It came after weeks of calls from Democrats for Biden to step aside for another candidate.
However, Harris has now been selected as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee without any democratic process.
Carville told Lemon that the Harris campaign launched “very well” but only because voters “wanted something different.”
He claims that Republicans were not prepared for Harris to launch her campaign because they were focused on Biden.
“Right now she’s doing well, very well,” Carville said.
“But let’s find out why she’s doing very well.
“She’s doing very well because 72% of the country wanted something different, and she is something different,” Carville said.
“So people are excited about it. I think there were 800,000 overnight donations; 60% were first-time donors.
“People were not expressing any policy agenda; they weren’t expressing anything, they just wanted something other than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
“Thank God that President Biden had the wherewithal to see that, and the party … coalesced immediately behind the vice president.
“And I’m very, very happy about that.”
In the 24 hours after Biden’s announcement that he was pulling out of the race, Harris raised over $81 million in donations.
However, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten warned on Tuesday that it will be “difficult” for Harris to defeat Trump because of the increased favorability he has following the Republican National Convention and surviving an assassination attempt.
Enten also warned that the perception that Harris is popular among young voters is merely an illusion, noting that the support is “just not there.”
“But I’m telling you, this is the best day that she’s gonna have for the rest of the campaign,” Carville said of the first 24 hours of Harris’s campaign.
“They’re coming … They were bad, they were confused, but they’re getting unconfused now,” Carville added.
“Democrats have got to get ready.
“I hope she can get her campaign, get her operation.
“It’s hard … you just don’t get into one of these things, turn the key on and it works.
“And they have a lot of decisions they got to make, and they’re coming in fast.
“And they’re starting brutal attacks.
“And some of them are silly, and some of them are going to require some political skill, some deftness, and some sort of good answers.
“And we’ve got to be ready for it.”
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Frank Bergman
July 25, 2024 - 4:25 pm
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville has warned that the “best day” of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is already behind her.
Carville, the lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, issued the warning during an interview on “The Don Lemon Show.”
He told the disgraced former CNN anchor that the initial excitement about Harris has already died down since she launched her campaign on Sunday.
As predicted by Slay News, Democrat President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign with a Sunday post on X.
Shortly after, “Biden” added another X post to endorse Harris as his replacement.
It came after weeks of calls from Democrats for Biden to step aside for another candidate.
However, Harris has now been selected as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee without any democratic process.
Carville told Lemon that the Harris campaign launched “very well” but only because voters “wanted something different.”
He claims that Republicans were not prepared for Harris to launch her campaign because they were focused on Biden.
“Right now she’s doing well, very well,” Carville said.
“But let’s find out why she’s doing very well.
“She’s doing very well because 72% of the country wanted something different, and she is something different,” Carville said.
“So people are excited about it. I think there were 800,000 overnight donations; 60% were first-time donors.
“People were not expressing any policy agenda; they weren’t expressing anything, they just wanted something other than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
“Thank God that President Biden had the wherewithal to see that, and the party … coalesced immediately behind the vice president.
“And I’m very, very happy about that.”
In the 24 hours after Biden’s announcement that he was pulling out of the race, Harris raised over $81 million in donations.
However, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten warned on Tuesday that it will be “difficult” for Harris to defeat Trump because of the increased favorability he has following the Republican National Convention and surviving an assassination attempt.
Enten also warned that the perception that Harris is popular among young voters is merely an illusion, noting that the support is “just not there.”
“But I’m telling you, this is the best day that she’s gonna have for the rest of the campaign,” Carville said of the first 24 hours of Harris’s campaign.
“They’re coming … They were bad, they were confused, but they’re getting unconfused now,” Carville added.
“Democrats have got to get ready.
“I hope she can get her campaign, get her operation.
“It’s hard … you just don’t get into one of these things, turn the key on and it works.
“And they have a lot of decisions they got to make, and they’re coming in fast.
“And they’re starting brutal attacks.
“And some of them are silly, and some of them are going to require some political skill, some deftness, and some sort of good answers.
“And we’ve got to be ready for it.”
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