‘She’s Gonna Get Slaughtered’: James Carville Warns Savage Attacks On Kamala Harris Are On Their Way

Veteran Democratic Party political strategist James Carville spoke to PBS’s Margaret Hoover about Vice President Kamala Harris and how she can sustain the momentum she gained just over a week after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and Harris became a candidate.

“In the first 24 hours of Vice President Harris’s campaign, she raised a record $81 million. Democrats have been significantly less enthusiastic about Biden than Republicans for about Trump until now. What is the key for the vice president to sustain this excitement for her candidacy throughout the rest of the campaign?” Hoover asked Carville on the most recent episode of her show Firing Line.

“That’s the key question,” Carville replied, adding:

And the first thing is to recognize what happened. What happened was that people wanted something different and that she just projects the fact that she is, you know, excited about the future. And there was no policy that anyone was pushing and there was no particular group that was behind it. It was just a general feeling that people wanted a different choice than Donald Trump and President Biden.

And they got it. And there is some good, not that… Look she’s gonna get slaughtered. They’re coming out… they’re coming. And this is just part of that. Will be no different than it was any other time. And they have got to get up and get ready. And they’ve got to be able to defend and attack at the same time. There is gonna be a time of struggle of definition as to who Vice President Harris is. And we better be ready for that. But I feel like we are in a better position today than we were Sunday morning. And we’re doing this interview on Wednesday. So I will take small victories where I get them.

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