Democratic strategist James Carville reportedly delivered a blistering critique of former Vice President Kamala Harris this week, accusing her of reopening old wounds within the party while promoting her new memoir about the 2024 campaign.
“Let me be very clear here. No one that had anything to do with 2024, no Democrat wants to hear from you,” Carville said on his Politics War Room podcast Thursday. “We all voted for you. OK, not Hunter Biden, not Harris, not Tim Walz, not the consultants, not anything. 2024 has left such a lingering bad taste in Democrats … just get out of the way.”
His sharp comments reflect growing frustration among party insiders over Harris’s attempts to reenter the political spotlight after the Democrats’ landslide loss last November. The former vice president’s book, 107 Days, recounts her perspective on the chaotic campaign and has drawn fire even from those who once supported her.
Harris has insisted she’s not finished with public life, but she has yet to say whether she plans another presidential run. The book, however, paints an unflattering portrait of the final days of the Biden administration, especially of President Biden’s declining physical state.
“At 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles,” Harris wrote. She added that those close to Biden “should have realized that any campaign was a bridge too far.”
In another passage, Harris reflects on her inability to persuade Biden to step aside as his approval ratings plummeted. “And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” she wrote. “I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
While Harris frames her book as an honest examination of loyalty, party veterans see it as another misstep from a politician who never quite connected with voters. To many Democrats, her focus on past grievances underscores why the party suffered such a devastating loss in 2024 — and why its recovery has been slow.
Carville’s rebuke captures the prevailing mood among party operatives eager to turn the page. After years of electoral setbacks and infighting, Democrats appear increasingly united on one point: they want Harris to move on.
“Just get out of the way,” Carville said again, summing up a sentiment that, for now, many in his party seem to share.
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