James Carville Names The ‘Devastating’ Moment That Doomed The Harris Campaign

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Friday said Kamala Harris’ failed campaign is “reducible” to her answer on “The View” when she was asked what she would have done differently from President Joe Biden.
“It’s the one question that you exist to answer, all right, that is it. That’s the money question, that’s the one you want,” said Carville in an interview with Tim Miller on “The Bulwark Podcast.”
“That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to and you freeze, literally freeze.”
The vice president — in an interview on “The View” last month— briefly paused before telling host Sunny Hostin there was “not a thing that comes to mind” as far as what she would’ve done differently from the president.
Carville, while referring to Harris’ answer, pointed to an NBC News poll in September in which 65% of registered voters said the country was on the wrong track.
“Maybe the odiousness of Trump combined with the Dobbs decision we can overcome it, but we didn’t overcome it. But when we go back and history unearths this, it’s going to be right there on ‘The View,’” Carville said.
“That’s the most devastating answer you could imagine.”
Miller, a former spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, argued that Harris was worried about Biden as he got out of the race late and people were “walking around eggshells” not to criticize the president.
“I didn’t feel like there was a sense of ‘You need to do — you do what you need to do to win,’ and I think she was torn a little bit by kind of loyalty and worrying about that,” Miller said.
Carville replied that “winning is everything,” adding that it’s more important than loyalty, and if you don’t do it, “you have done nothing.”
“And we’re unfortunately finding out the hard way, but I am sure that when we are told what happened on ‘The View’ it’s going to be, ‘Well, they’re giving me the answer but I just couldn’t get the words out of my mouth,’” he said of Harris.
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“That’s a very human thing, but when you’re running for president, you’re not allowed to have human reactions to the most fundamental question in the election, and that is how are you going to be different than what you got.”