Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville called on his party to back away from focusing on the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday.
“They need to sell harder,” said Carville, who appeared on the program in support of the upcoming documentary “Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid.”
Carville, a lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, noted “all of this disinformation” from Republicans and said Democrats have to “selectively pick out” what to focus on with under a month before Election Day.
“We’ve talked about January 6th ad infinitum, ad nauseam,” he said. “We’ve been talking about who won the election. Leave it alone.”
Carville, on a recent episode of his “Politics War Room” podcast with Al Hunt, pointed to Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) repeating former President Donald Trump’s claim that he tried to “save” the Affordable Care Act during his administration.
“That is about a huge issue that has a law that is important to people, alright, that has a large bias that people do think that Democrats are better,” Carville said on the podcast.
“That is an out-and-out lie, OK, let me just say it as plain as I can, it’s not close. You can’t say, ‘Well, you make it a,’ no… why isn’t Harris herself out today talking about that?”
He similarly urged Democrats to go after Vance’s “massive lie” on Wednesday.
“Have Bill Clinton go do actualities in every market, in every swing state, why — have Obama come out and say, ‘How dare he say this about our health care plan,’” Carville suggested.
H/T: Mediaite
