Democratic Party strategist James Carville lamented President Biden’s political misfortune in the weeks following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In a video update posted on YouTube, the 80-year-old expert weighed in on the heat Biden is currently receiving from his own party for pardoning his son, Hunter Biden. Although Carville did not grant the president a pardon, he lamented how Biden’s actions over the past year have made him such an unpopular figure.
“The most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime is President Biden,” Carville proclaimed.
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Democratic strategist James Carville recently claimed that President Biden’s failure to withdraw earlier from the presidential race has made him the most tragic figure in American politics he has ever seen. (Screenshot/HBO)
The strategist brushed aside criticism from Biden’s own party that he pardoned his son on Sunday after saying throughout his presidency that he would never do so.
“All right, so he said, ‘I’ll never forgive the kid.’ Okay, I don’t believe any of them. When someone says, “I never had sex with that person” or “I will never forgive my child,” I don’t pay attention to them. because I think everyone lies about sex and everyone will do what they do with their own children,” he said.
Several Democratic lawmakers and liberal media condemned gracearguing that the younger Biden got off too easy after multiple felony convictions and warning that Trump would use him as an excuse for more abuse of power.
Instead, Carville hammered Biden on his re-election bid in the first place, saying that if he had just passed the torch early enough, the Democratic Party would have won the election and none of this negative attention would be on him . He would have left the White House on a “good note,” he said.
Under intense pressure, Biden withdrew from the race in July and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who later lost to Trump.
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Hunter Biden flashes a big smile as he leaves an Arby’s in Santa Barbara on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Live image for Fox News Digital)
“But the scenario would be different, if he had said – in September 2023 or in August – that he was not going to run… we would have won this election. And it would not have been so close, because we “I would have had so many really talented people showing up,” he lamented.
Carville continued to describe Biden’s glorious alternative future, saying, “And he would be sitting here right now, getting ready to leave on a high note.” There would be nominating commissions to determine what we’re going to name it after. the toast of Washington. This would be an upcoming Democratic inauguration, and a new Democratic president could have somehow gotten away with commuting any sentence handed down to Hunter Biden.
He added that there would have been “minimal” backlash if the pardon had happened in this scenario, because Biden would be seen in a better light.
“And all of this,” he continued, “is self-inflicted. It’s tragic, it’s sad, and of course everything about him is – it’ll be six years before anyone comes back and talks about all of this amazing stuff – the manufacturing he brought back, the amazing things he made.”
Democratic strategist James Carville during an appearance on MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
“What’s so sad is that it didn’t have to happen this way. He brought it all on himself,” he said.
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