Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville reportedly dismissed concerns over reported dysfunction within the Democratic National Committee, suggesting gun control activist David Hogg could take over the organization if he wanted while downplaying the committee’s overall importance.
Carville made the remarks during a Sunday appearance as he discussed a recent New York Times report detailing internal struggles at the DNC under Chairman Ken Martin. The report described an organization facing significant financial pressures and operational difficulties.
Speaking in a more subdued tone, Carville noted he is recovering from surgery before turning his attention to the report.
“I did want to, like, Sunday afternoon, or whenever, weigh in on two stories I saw,” Carville said. “And one…was a story on the DNC that basically said it’s dysfunctional. It’s just difficult to do anything with it. And it’s all true.”
Rather than expressing concern over the committee’s problems, Carville suggested the organization’s internal issues were of little consequence compared to broader political developments.
“And at the end of the day, who cares?” he said. “I mean, maybe they want to try to get themselves together, some of them are lovely people…there’s Ken Martin. Maybe they ought to figure out, maybe they could be somewhat relevant. I have no idea.”
Carville then jokingly floated the idea of David Hogg taking over the Democratic National Committee.
“If David Hogg wants to take it over, then, I ain’t stopping you — go ahead, man, I don’t really care,” Carville said. “And I don’t think at the end of the day, well, it might be fine people—I know some of them are not particularly determined.”
The longtime Democratic strategist argued that another political story deserved far more attention than the DNC’s internal disputes.
Carville referenced what he described as reporting on Republican research indicating that some supporters of the MAGA movement had become dissatisfied. He said Republicans had been conducting research and sending canvassers into communities to gather feedback from voters.
According to Carville, the findings described in the report were politically significant.
“And there was another story about how all these Republicans are doing all this research, and they’re discovered that, well, people can’t stand their ass,” Carville said before describing the reporting as “a pretty good story” that was “well reported.”
He argued that story carried greater political weight than internal disputes at the Democratic National Committee.
“That’s a consequential story!” Carville said. “No one—the DNC, like it, loathe it, don’t care about it—take your own pick. It doesn’t matter!”
Carville went on to suggest Democrats should focus on distinguishing meaningful political developments from stories that generate headlines without having much impact.
“As we go forward in this political year and we get to the end of it, we got to be careful to discern what’s vapor and what’s real,” he said. “That, my friends, is one significant story.”
He also poked fun at details from the New York Times report concerning the DNC, referencing an allegation that someone had thrown an object at a desk during a tense moment.
“So as you’re accumulating your news over the weekend, have a little fun, read the DNC story about he threw, I don’t know, a salt shaker—I don’t know—threw something at a desk. Oh, God forbid that would ever happen!” Carville exclaimed.
He concluded by encouraging viewers to pay closer attention to the broader political challenges he believes Democrats face.
“And then read the story about the troubles that they’re having, and let’s do everything we can to give them even more trouble between now and election day,” Carville said.
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