Democratic strategist James Carville is warning his party that President Biden could lose to former President Trump in 2024.
“Let’s say the election was November the third of this year. And they said the candidates are Joe Biden the Democrat, Donald Trump the Republican, Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan No Labels and Cornel West. Trump would be a betting favorite. If I told you I would give you even money, you would not take that bet,” Carville said on a Sunday episode of Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
“And so somebody better wake the f‑‑‑ up,” he added.
Carville, a longtime political consultant to former President Clinton, has not shied away from criticizing political organization No Labels’s effort to get a bipartisan ticket on the ballot. He has also been critical of Democrats’ push to reelect Biden despite voters’ concerns that he is too old for the job.
Maher said that he was on the “same page” as Carville and also expressed pessimism toward Biden’s reelection campaign. He said that while Biden in 2020 may have been the only Democrat who could have beaten Trump, Biden is now “the only one who will lose to him.”
“He’s, I think, going to lose, it will be Ruth Bader Biden, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency,” Maher said. “It’s not a good look. And any 50ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name — people just vote D and R — that person can win.”
Carville agreed, adding that “if we have somebody under 60 and ran against Trump, we’d get 55 percent.”
A recent YouGov/Yahoo News poll found that Biden and Trump are tied at 44 percent support among registered voters in a hypothetical match-up, with 7 percent undecided and 4 percent saying they will not vote.