Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville literally laughed off the idea that President Joe Biden, who was in New York City for a fundraiser at the time, should have taken some time to drop by the funeral of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-return-to-law-and-order-at-wake-for-slain-ny-police-officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fallen NYPD officer</a> Jonathan Diller.
Carville, who joined fellow guest Geraldo Rivera in a discussion with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, called the notion &#8220;idiotic&#8221; and asserted that fundraising schedules should not be disrupted when police officers were killed: &#8220;Unfortunately, it happens about 120 times a year.&#8221;
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Last night Dem strategist James Carville said it would be &quot;idiotic&quot; for Biden to care about Officer Jonathan Diller being murdered and to modify his fundraiser plans because cops are shot all the time: &quot;They&#39;re raising money, they got guest lists&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kkYAmuZFDG">pic.twitter.com/kkYAmuZFDG</a>
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Cuomo began by pointing out the stark comparisons that many had made — namely that while Biden was hobnobbing with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and shilling for high-dollar donations, former President Donald Trump was speaking at Diller&#8217;s funeral just minutes away — and he argued that Biden could have undercut the bad optics by simply making an appearance, however brief.
Carville just laughed.
&#8220;James, when you&#8217;re done laughing,&#8221; Cuomo prompted.
&#8220;Well, I think — I think it&#8217;s idiotic,&#8221; Carville replied. &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you why: they have a fundraising schedule, they have Radio City Music Hall, they&#8217;re out there raising money, they got guest lists, they got everything done. Unfortunately, it happens about 120 times a year, a police officer was shot.&#8221;
&#8220;And so you&#8217;re really saying he should just unring the entire bell.&#8221; Carville then abruptly pivoted to complain about conservatives who had objected to the president&#8217;s decision to honor &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; even though it coincided with Easter Sunday, claiming that people just wanted to always be outraged about something.
&#8220;No, James, that was an easy one. It&#8217;s a layup,&#8221; Cuomo protested, saying that all Biden really had to do was make an appearance at the fallen officer&#8217;s funeral. &#8220;You stop by, you see the family, you give them some private moments, you get back in the car, you go to the fundraiser. That&#8217;s not a stretch.&#8221;
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&#8220;I profoundly disagree,&#8221; Carville pushed back, repeating his initial assessment that the idea was &#8220;idiotic.&#8221;
&#8220;Here&#8217;s how you fix it with minimal effort and you make people feel better,&#8221; Rivera weighed in then, saying that all Biden really had to do was acknowledge Diller — even if all he did was say a few words about him during the fundraiser.
&#8220;It is not uncommon for a peace officer to be killed in the line of duty,&#8221; Carville continued to push back, arguing that keeping the fundraising schedule on track was the more pressing of the two issues.

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Democrat Strategist Says It’s ‘Idiotic’ To Expect Biden To Ditch Fundraiser To Honor Fallen Cop

Democrat Strategist Says It's 'Idiotic' To Expect Biden To Ditch Fundraiser To Honor Fallen Cop

Chris Cuomo

Donald Trump

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Geraldo Rivera

James Carville

Joe Biden

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New York Police Department (NYPD)

Politics

Veteran Democratic political consultant James Carville says President Joe Biden’s sagging poll numbers are &#8220;like walking in on your grandma naked.”
Carville offered the bawdy metaphor to The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/opinion/james-carville-bill-clinton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that addressed the current state of the Democratic Party. Polls lately have reflected that Biden, in particular, is in a tough spot with voters as he seeks re-election.
“When I look at these polling numbers, it’s like walking in on your grandma naked. You can’t get the image out of your mind,” Carville told the columnist.
Biden <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trails</a> his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in all seven battleground states, according to the RealClearPolitics polling averages of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 
Biden’s age and consistent gaffes have especially taken a toll on his public image, according to Carville. Compared to Trump, the 81-year-old Biden appears slower, weaker, and more a victim of old age than his 77-year-old competitor.
“If you do a focus group,” Carville said, “the first thing out of anybody’s mouth is ‘Old,’ so how do you say we’re going to act like this doesn’t exist?”
“Now don’t tell me that Biden has more energy or cognition than Trump because it’s evident that, yeah, Trump’s got word salads, but he projects energy,” Carville continued. “He’s insane. He’s a criminal of the first order. But he does have a little timing and a little sense of humor and knows how to move from one story to the other.”
In an NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-age-fitness-top-list-voters-concerns-poll-finds-rcna137212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from early February, three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, expressed concerns about the octogenarian president’s mental and physical health as he campaigns for another four years in office. Voters have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-carson-pretty-much-guarantee-biden-couldnt-pass-simple-cognitive-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> concerns about Trump as well, though not to the same degree.
Asked about how Biden can blunt or reverse course and bolster his polling numbers, Carville suggested that staying the course was the president&#8217;s only option.
“I don’t think he can do much more than soldier on and let the Democratic groups kick in,” the longtime Democratic strategist said.

James Carville Says Viewing Biden’s Poll Numbers Is ‘Like Walking In On Your Grandma Naked’

2024 Election

Democrat strategist James Carville said during an interview over the weekend that if Democrats lose in the upcoming November elections that Israel will be to blame.
Carville made the remarks during a Sunday MSNBC interview with former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki while talking about Israel&#8217;s response to Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack.
&#8220;This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the president and Blinken can get this thing calmed down because if it doesn&#8217;t get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it&#8217;s going to be a very ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that.
&#8220;No matter what happens, I know it&#8217;s a huge problem,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;And the uncommitted will do fairly well. And Trump got 60% in the South Carolina Republican primary and we had idiots in the press saying he ran away with it. Well McCarthy got 40% in New Hampshire and that got Lyndon Johnson out of the race. So uncommitted gets 40%, that&#8217;s going to be not a particularly positive sign. But we already know. You and I know that this is a problem in the party. And I think the president knows that, really knows that, he&#8217;s being told that. And they&#8217;re gonna have to tell Bibi Netanyahu, &#8216;Hey, dude, we are not going to lose our election because you stand to go to jail. You have to think of something else.'&#8221;
Carville demonized Netanyahu, claiming that he showed &#8220;negligence&#8221; and that the U.S. &#8220;should be putting pressure on him every way we can to de-escalate this thing, and quickly.&#8221;
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&#8220;They&#8217;re gonna have to tell Bibi, &#8216;Hey, dude, we are not going to lose our election because you stand to go to jail, think of something else.&#8217; The negligence of this man is breathtaking.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6ykJDGU6n4">pic.twitter.com/6ykJDGU6n4</a>
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Democrat Strategist James Carville: If Democrats Lose In November It’s Israel’s Fault

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t buying veteran Democrat strategist James Carville&#8217;s analysis going into the 2024 presidential election — namely his claim that President Joe Biden&#8217;s chances of winning were less than stellar.
Fetterman called Carville out directly during an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/27/john-fetterman-q-and-a-00133217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with POLITICO that was published on Wednesday, while responding to questions about Biden&#8217;s chances in Pennsylvania.
&#8220;All I do know is that the president will win Pennsylvania. And I do believe if he wins Pennsylvania, and I believe he will, he will be a second-term president,&#8221; Fetterman said, before pivoting to address Carville&#8217;s assessment of the situation.
&#8220;There’s a whole lifetime in politics between now and next November as well. I’m not worried about that. And I’m very vocal about this, too, while there are Democrats that are being very critical about the president,&#8221; Fetterman continued. &#8220;I’ll use this [as] another opportunity to tell James Carville to shut the f*** up. Like I said, my man hasn’t been relevant since grunge was a thing. And I don’t know why he believes it’s helpful to say these kinds of things about an incredibly difficult circumstance with an incredibly strong and decent and excellent president. I’ll never understand that.&#8221;
Carville responded by telling the outlet that other senators — some of whom have asked him to advise or even campaign with them — had not &#8220;gotten the memo yet&#8221; regarding his irrelevance. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s feeling better,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-carville-and-bill-maher-agree-biden-should-not-be-the-2024-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carville</a> said of Fetterman.
The longtime Democratic strategist had delivered a much gloomier forecast during a December 13 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/13/exp-james-carville-2024-election-donald-trump-joe-biden-121311aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with CNN&#8217;s Kasie Hunt, arguing that Biden would likely lose if the election had been held that day.
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&#8220;It sounds to me like you think if the election were held today, Biden would lose,&#8221; Hunt prompted, and Carville agreed with her assessment.
&#8220;Me and everybody else,&#8221; he said.
Carville has been sounding the alarm on that front for months, telling comedian Bill Maher in late September, &#8220;Let’s assume the election was November the third of this year and 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.&#8221;

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‘Shut The F*** Up’: John Fetterman Takes Aim At James Carville Over Biden’s Weakness

'Shut The F*** Up!': John Fetterman Takes Aim At James Carville Over Biden's Weakness

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Democratic strategist James Carville claimed during an interview late last week that Christian Republicans represented a greater threat to the U.S. than Islamic terrorists.
Carville made the remarks during an appearance on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; while discussing new U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
&#8220;Mike Johnson and what he believes is one of the greatest threats we have today to the United States,&#8221; Carville claimed. &#8220;I promise you, I know these people.&#8221;
When asked by host Bill Maher if he was referring to &#8220;Christian nationalists,&#8221; Carville responded: &#8220;Absolutely, this is a bigger threat than al-Qaeda to this country.&#8221;
&#8220;And let me tell you something: The Speaker of the House, they got probably at least two Supreme Court justices, maybe more, don&#8217;t kid yourself,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People in the press have no idea who this guy is, how he was formed, what the threat is, and this is a fundamental threat to the United States. It is a fundamental thing. [They] don&#8217;t believe in the Constitution. They&#8217;ll tell you that. Mike Johnson himself says what is democracy but two wolves and a lamb having lunch? That&#8217;s what they really, really, really believe.&#8221;
&#8220;And to say, &#8216;Oh, come on, man. It&#8217;s just some crazy s***.&#8217; No, no. They believe that. And they&#8217;re coming and they&#8217;ve been doing it forever. They&#8217;re funded. They&#8217;re funded. They&#8217;re relentless and, you know, they probably won&#8217;t win for a while but they might. And if they do, the whole country blows a gasket.&#8221;
Johnson responded to the remarks in a post on his official government X account, saying that the Democratic Party should condemn Carville&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;It&#8217;s twisted and shameful that a leading Democrat strategist says millions of Christians in America are a greater threat than foreign terrorists who murdered more than 3,000 Americans,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;The Democratic Party should condemn this. But they won’t.&#8221;
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Per <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesCarville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesCarville</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RTOvertime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RTOvertime</a> on CNN, <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> “is one of the greatest threats we have today to the United States” and his beliefs are “a bigger threat than al Qaeda to this country&#8230;a fundamental threat to the United States.” <a href="https://t.co/dPLe3IxLqj">pic.twitter.com/dPLe3IxLqj</a>
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Democrat Strategist Claims Speaker Johnson ‘A Bigger Threat’ To U.S. ‘Than Al-Qaeda’; Johnson Responds

Bill Maher

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Longtime Democratic strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-strategist-james-carville-wokeness-is-a-problem-for-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> and comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-can-say-the-craziest-thing-bill-maher-says-no-one-is-canceled-for-being-too-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> were in complete agreement on one thing going into the 2024 presidential election: incumbent President Joe Biden should not be the Democratic nominee, especially if former President Donald Trump nabs the Republican nomination.
The two got together for Sunday&#8217;s episode of Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, and they both agreed that the Democratic Party&#8217;s best bet was to choose someone — anyone — who was a &#8220;50-ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name.&#8221;
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James Carville &quot;Let&#39;s assume the election was November 3rd. Trump would be a betting favorite. Somebody better wake the fuck up&quot;
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&#8220;Let’s assume the election was November the third of this year and 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,&#8221; Carville said. &#8220;If I told you I would give you even money, you would not take that bet. All right. And so somebody better wake the f*** up.&#8221;
Maher responded by saying that he believed Biden had done a decent job as president, but that he worried about whether or not he was up to the task of running again – especially against Trump.
&#8220;I might take even money. But you’re right. I’m totally on the same page,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In 2020, maybe he was the only one who could have beaten Trump, I think now he’s the only one who will lose to him.&#8221;
&#8220;He cannot run for president. He’ll look bad in the debates. It’s too much. And he’s — I think, going to lose,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;He will be Ruth Bader Biden, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency. It’s not a good look. And any 50-ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name. People just vote D and R, that person can win.&#8221;
&#8220;Easily. If we had somebody under 60 and ran against Trump, we’d get 55%,&#8221; Carville agreed.
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The Democratic strategist — who long ago earned the nickname &#8220;The Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8221; — also <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/james-carville-rips-stupid-far-left-democrats-on-bill-maher-podcast/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tore into the far Left</a>, saying, &#8220;I find the Left to be just annoying. The western far Left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine. They come up with these really goofy constructs and it’s all about feeling good about yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;What happened is, overeducated, coastal white people, got ahold of the word, and [like] they do with everything else, they completely f***ed it up and pissed everybody in the country off. If we could just get the humanities faculty at Amherst [College] to shut the f*** up, we’d be a lot better off,&#8221; Carville added.

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James Carville And Bill Maher Agree: Biden Should Not Be The 2024 Nominee

Elections

Abortion, abortion, abortion.
That&#8217;s all the Democrats are talking about in the waning days of the 2022 midterm campaigns.
But if they&#8217;re paying attention to the polls, they&#8217;ll realize that the 1992 presidential campaign motto of Bill Clinton rings true now more than ever: &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.&#8221;
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“A lot of these consultants think if all we do is run abortion spots that will win for us. I don’t think so,” James Carville, who ran Clinton&#8217;s campaign and coined the motto, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ragin-cajun-warns-dems-abortion-aint-a-winning-issue">said</a> last week.  “It’s a good issue. But if you just sit there and they’re pummeling you on crime and pummeling you on the cost of living, you’ve got to be more aggressive than just yelling abortion every other word.”
A <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/ipsos-core-political-presidential-approval-tracker-10052022">poll</a> earlier this month laid out the issues Americans most want Biden to focus on.
Economy &#8212; 55% 
Employment/Jobs &#8212; 24% 
Immigration &#8212; 21% 
Environment &#8212; 16% 
Unifying Country &#8212; 15% 
Corruption &#8212; 12% 
COVID-19 &#8212; 9% 
Racial Inequality &#8212; 8% 
International Trade &#8212; 2% 
Other &#8212; 5%
Notice what&#8217;s missing? Abortion.
What&#8217;s more, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) says Democrats are missing the point on crime as they overhype their support of abortion.
“People actually think the Democrats are more extreme in their eagerness to kill babies than Republicans are in their desire to save babies,” he told The <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-gop-could-gain-up-to-7-seats-in-senate-50-seats-in-house-gingrich_4814897.html?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=BonginoReport">Epoch Times</a>. &#8220;Their activists are so intense, and so rabid, and their activists have been giving money, it feels like it’s a good issue for them. But when you go out to the country beyond the hard left of the Democratic Party, it’s in fact, not working for them at all.”
Abortion is “not helping Democrats as much as they think,&#8221; Gingrich said.
A Monmouth University <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_100322/">poll</a> this month found inflation is &#8220;extremely or very important&#8221; for 82% of Americans, but Biden&#8217;s approval rating on the issue is just 30%. Crime is second at 72%, but Biden&#8217;s handling is 32%. And immigration comes in at 67% for voters, but the president&#8217;s approval rating is 31%.
“Democrats are all over the place when it comes to their key issues. This makes it difficult for the party to create a cohesive messaging strategy to motivate its base. Republicans, on the other hand, just have to hammer away at rising prices and ‘the wolf is at the door’ to get their voters riled up,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
“A major problem for Democrats is their base messaging doesn’t hold as much appeal for independents as the GOP issue agenda does. Even though truly persuadable independents are a rather small group these days, this small difference can have a major impact given the expectation that congressional control will hinge on a handful of very close contests,&#8221; Murray said.
Then again, the Democrats don&#8217;t have much to say about their efforts to repair the economy so badly damaged by President Joe Biden, do they?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Dunderheaded Democrats Have Completely Forgotten ‘It’s The Economy, Stupid’

Dunderheaded Democrats Have Forgotten 'It's The Economy, Stupid'

2022 Midterms

Bill Clinton

Economy

Inflation

With three weeks to go until the 2022 midterm elections, things are so bad for Democrats that they&#8217;re already getting their stories together on who and what to blame for what many pollsters are predicting will be a bloodbath for the party.
Former President Barack Obama, who hit the campaign trail in a desperate attempt to stem the losses, was brutal in his assessment of what&#8217;s dragging Democrats down, saying they&#8217;re a &#8220;buzzkill.&#8221;
&#8220;When we’re talking about putting together … durable majorities, we have to be able to speak to everybody about their common interests,” Obama said in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/15/barack-obama-blasts-cancel-culture-calls-dems-buzzkill/">interview</a> with &#8220;Pod Save America.&#8221;
&#8220;Where we get into trouble sometimes is when we try to suggest that some groups are more — because they historically have been victimized more, that somehow they have a status that’s different than other people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that we’re going around scolding folks if they don’t use exactly the right phrase, or that identity politics becomes the principal lens through which we view our various political challenges.&#8221;
James Carville, the chief strategist for Bill Clinton, was famed for framing the 1992 presidential race with just four words: &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.&#8221; He, too, says Democrats are far too focused on abortion while Americans care most about inflation, gas and food prices, rampant crime, and the porous southern border.
“A lot of these consultants think if all we do is run abortion spots that will win for us. I don’t think so,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ragin-cajun-warns-dems-abortion-aint-a-winning-issue">said</a>. “It’s a good issue. But if you just sit there and they’re pummeling you on crime and pummeling you on the cost of living, you’ve got to be more aggressive than just yelling &#8216;abortion&#8217; every other word.”
Carville is spot on. Democrats thought they had been gifted a winning issue when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that deemed abortion a constitutionally protected right across America.
And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says Democrats are spending too much time moaning about abortion rights and far too little on one of his key issues, economic inequality.
&#8220;I don’t believe it can be the only issue,&#8221; Sanders told “CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper” in a recent interview.
“At a time when we have an economy in which the wealthiest people, the billionaire class, are getting much, much richer while working people are struggling to put food on the table, it goes without saying that we have to focus on the economy,” he said.
Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist and Clinton White House adviser, told <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3695023-democrats-ready-for-midterm-blame-game/">The Hill</a> he agrees with Obama.
“I think the language police stuff gets a little silly, but I would also say that in the focus groups that I have done and the polling that I have been working on … voters are not mostly focused on that stuff. That’s what Twitter is focused on,” he said. “My sense of what voters are focused on is economic issues, abortion, stuff that really matters to them and their lives.”
Well, wrong on abortion, but right on the other issues.
Americans are keyed in inflation, which has forced more than half of working Americans to consider getting a second job to make ends meet.
&#8220;About 38% of workers have looked for a second job, while an additional 14% have plans to do so, according to a survey of more than 1,000 full-time US employees by Qualtrics International Inc., which makes software used by over 16,000 organizations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/inflation-forces-over-50-of-americans-to-consider-a-side-hustle?leadSource=uverify%20wall">Bloomberg News</a> reported. &#8220;At the same time, 18% of working adults said they had moved to an area with a lower cost of living to cut expenses, and another 13% plan to do so.&#8221;
Why? &#8220;About 70% say their pay isn’t keeping up with rising expenses. A recent Brookings Institution study estimated that the current spike in prices means it will now cost more than $300,000 to raise a child to age 17, up $26,000 since inflation took hold,&#8221; Bloomberg reported.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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James Carville is a smart guy. After all, he led the campaign that put a little-known governor from Arkansas in the White House.
As the chief strategist for Bill Clinton, the &#8220;Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8221; was famed for framing the race with just four words: &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.&#8221;
Candidates in the 1992 race faced tough circumstances: More than 10 million Americans were unemployed, job creation was the slowest since the Great Depression, the federal deficit had reached a record high, and poverty and welfare rolls — along with inflation — were soaring.
But then-President George H.W. Bush seemed out of touch, and The New York <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/us/bush-encounters-the-supermarket-amazed.html">Times</a> made up a story to drive that narrative.
Bush made a campaign stop in February 1992 at the National Grocers Association Convention in Florida and hit an exhibit that featured a new type of checkout scanner.
&#8220;The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.” the Times wrote, then noted, “Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.”
The message was clear: Bush had no idea how a grocery store worked, and no idea what life was like for average Americans. The story never went away: Even his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/george-hw-bush-dies.html?smtyp=cur&amp;amp;smid=tw-nytimes">obituary</a> in the Times said, “His critics saw him as out of touch with ordinary Americans, pointing to what they portrayed as his amazed reaction during a demonstration of a supermarket scanner.&#8221;
The story, it turned out, was completely false. The exhibit Bush viewed featured a new kind of scanner, one that could actually read bar codes that were wrinkled, torn or half missing.
But back to Carville. He knows how to frame a campaign — and how not to. The strategist on Monday offered some sound advice to Democrats engaged in the 2022 midterms.
“A lot of these consultants think if all we do is run abortion spots that will win for us. I don’t think so,” he said. “It’s a good issue. But if you just sit there and they’re pummeling you on crime and pummeling you on the cost of living, you’ve got to be more aggressive than just yelling abortion every other word.”
Carville is spot on. Democrats thought they had been gifted a winning issue when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1972 landmark decision that deemed abortion a constitutionally protected right for all Americans.
But Americans are far more focused on other issues. An Ipsos <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/ipsos-core-political-presidential-approval-tracker-10052022">poll</a> of 1,003 voters released this week found that abortion didn&#8217;t even make the top 10 issues on which Americans want President Joe Biden to focus. Here&#8217;s the list:
Economy — 55% 
Employment/Jobs — 24% 
Immigration — 21% 
Environment — 16% 
Unifying Country — 15% 
Corruption — 12% 
COVID-19 — 9% 
Racial Inequality — 8% 
International Trade — 2% 
Other — 5%
If Democrats are smart, they&#8217;ll heed Carville&#8217;s advice. He knows a thing or two about winning.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

The ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ Warns Dems: Abortion Ain’t A Winning Issue

The 'Ragin' Cajun' James Carville Warns Dems: Abortion Ain't A Winning Issue

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Democratic strategist James Carville once coined the phrase &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid!&#8221; — but he told CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta that President Joe Biden could alleviate some of his own economic woes if he would just tax oil companies more.
Carville — who previously served as an adviser to former President Bill Clinton — made an appearance on Acosta&#8217;s weekend show on Saturday afternoon, and the two discussed both the state of the economy and Biden&#8217;s insistence on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/not-all-of-it-jake-tapper-interrupts-biden-official-who-keeps-insisting-gas-prices-are-putins-fault/">continuing to claim</a> that Russian President Vladimir Putin caused the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/it-sounds-like-youre-blaming-putin-peter-doocy-spars-with-psaki-on-gas-prices-she-keeps-blaming-putin/">massive spike</a> in gas prices when he chose to send Russian forces to invade Ukraine.
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James Carville once coined the phrase &quot;It&#39;s the economy, stupid.&quot;
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Acosta began with a clip of Biden referring to skyrocketing prices at the pump as &#8220;Putin&#8217;s price hike,&#8221; and asked Carville to weigh in on whether or not the president&#8217;s strategy was effective.
&#8220;Is that explanation good enough, and are Democrats losing on some of these kitchen table issues?&#8221; Acosta asked. &#8220;Do you want to give them some tough talk here?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I’m going to tell you who’s doing well: Exxon, Chevron, Shell — every oil company,&#8221; Carville replied. &#8220;If anybody doesn’t think that these oil companies are manipulating these prices to their advantage, I have no idea what to tell you because you’re strictly naive.&#8221;
Carville then argued that the solution was to tax the oil companies more, and then funnel that money back to consumers — particularly those who made less than $100,000 a year.
&#8220;There’s not a single person in the United States that doesn’t think that these prices are being manipulated by these oil companies,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;I’m sure Putin is somewhat to blame, but believe you me, they’re riding that and the Democrats have got to show they really understand what’s going on in this economy. A lot of this is being manipulated for the purpose of profit. That’s what’s really happening here.&#8221;
Acosta pushed back a bit, asking why the White House had not done more to address the problem if oil companies were engaged in manipulating the market.
&#8220;Why hasn’t the president been more aggressive on that in terms of going after the oil companies?&#8221; he asked, going on to suggest tax rebates and other relief programs that the White House could get behind in addition to going after the companies. &#8220;Why not do something like that to get people through these summer high gas prices?&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe we ought to push this thing a little bit harder,&#8221; Carville agreed. &#8220;I talked to people that do focus groups endlessly, and they all say the same thing that they’re being manipulated and the president needs to be strong and stand up to these oil companies, and I think that he will and I think this idea is a very good idea to tax these profits.&#8221;

‘This Is Being Manipulated’: James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More

James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More

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James Carville, a top Democrat strategist, slammed his own party during an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22893113/james-carville-joe-manchin-biden-democratic-party">interview</a> with Vox this week for doing &#8220;stupid s***&#8221; and imploring his party to do &#8220;whatever it takes to get more political power.&#8221;
Carville warned that his party needed to take Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) more seriously because &#8220;Manchin is closer to the mainstream than a lot of these people think, and pretending like he isn’t won’t help the cause.&#8221;
&#8220;[South Carolina Democrat] Jaime Harrison raised over $100 million only to lose his Senate race to Lindsey Graham by 10 points,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Amy McGrath runs for Senate in Kentucky and raises over $90 million only to get crushed by Mitch McConnell. They were always going to lose those races, but Democrats keep doing this stupid s***. They’re too damn emotional. Democrats obsess over high-profile races they can’t win because that’s where all the attention is. We’re addicted to hopeless causes.&#8221;
&#8220;B****ing about a Democratic senator in West Virginia is missing the damn plot,&#8221; he added.
Carville said that there are a lot of serious problems facing Democrats with the upcoming elections, including rising crime, skyrocketing inflation, turmoil on the global stage, and a pandemic that Democrat President Joe Biden has failed to end.
&#8220;What people have is a sense of disorder, and that will kill you every time in politics,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But yes, right now what the general public is reacting to, more than Democratic messaging, is a sense of disorder in the country. It’s just hard to break through [with] a message in that kind of environment.&#8221;
&#8220;Part of Biden’s lack of power is because the Republicans see that the Democrats are whiny. They can feel that weakness in the Democratic coalition,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;We’ve got to do whatever it takes to get more political power and that means we’ve got to win some elections. Just win some goddamn elections.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democratic-strategist-rips-his-own-party-democrats-whine-too-much-quit-being-a-whiny-party">reported</a> earlier this month on similar remarks that Carville made during an interview with NBC News.
“Now, I think a lot of the Democratic base has not been told or informed of the things that President Biden and this Congress has accomplished,” Carville claimed. “But to me, those are the things that, if I’m a Democrat, I much more care about that than some word in a dictionary — that children are going to bed with a full stomach and a warm, you know, a warm house. I care that somebody, an hourly worker, is not sitting there working away at $7.25 an hour. And I see these signs all over, even in Louisiana and south Mississippi, $700 signing bonus. Those are real accomplishments.”
“And it’s something that you can run on. And again, you don’t talk about what you didn’t get,” Carville continued. “That’s what these — Democrats whine too much, Chuck. Just quit being a whiny party. And get out there and fight, and tell people what you did. And tell people the exact truth. The Republican Party stands for nothing other than, ‘Let’s relitigate the 2020 election,’ or, ‘Let’s get back at Jamie Raskin.’ That’s it. That’s the entire platform.”

Top Democrat Strategist Rips His Party: They ‘Keep Doing This Stupid S***,’ ‘Too Damn Emotional’

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Top Democratic strategist James Carville took a shot at his own party during an NBC News interview on Sunday, saying that they needed to quit whining about things that they did not get, and focus instead on fighting for the American people.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got a situation right now. The Biden coalition &#8212; nobody&#8217;s happy,&#8221; NBC News host Chuck Todd said. &#8220;Progressives aren&#8217;t happy right now with how Build Back Better has gone. African American activists are not happy about how voting rights has gone. And if you look at the polling, the – honestly, the thing that&#8217;s cratering the most are independents. You know, the folks that just wanted the temperature turned down. You&#8217;re the president. What do you fix first?&#8221;
&#8220;Now, I think a lot of the Democratic base has not been told or informed of the things that President Biden and this Congress has accomplished,&#8221; Carville claimed. &#8220;But to me, those are the things that, if I&#8217;m a Democrat, I much more care about that than some word in a dictionary &#8212; that children are going to bed with a full stomach and a warm, you know, a warm house. I care that somebody, an hourly worker, is not sitting there working away at $7.25 an hour. And I see these signs all over, even in Louisiana and south Mississippi, $700 signing bonus. Those are real accomplishments.&#8221;
&#8220;And it&#8217;s something that you can run on. And again, you don&#8217;t talk about what you didn&#8217;t get,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s what these &#8212; Democrats whine too much, Chuck. Just quit being a whiny party. And get out there and fight, and tell people what you did. And tell people the exact truth. The Republican Party stands for nothing other than, &#8216;Let&#8217;s relitigate the 2020 election,&#8217; or, &#8216;Let&#8217;s get back at Jamie Raskin.&#8217; That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the entire platform.&#8221;
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WATCH: &quot;Democrats whine too much,&quot; Democratic strategist <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesCarville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesCarville</a> said on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a> as independents drift away from the party in polling.
&quot;You don&#39;t talk about what you didn&#39;t get. &#8230; Quit being a whiny party and get out there and fight and tell people what you did.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/YWE2H1twyd">pic.twitter.com/YWE2H1twyd</a>
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CHUCK TODD, NBC HOST: You&#8217;ve got a situation right now. The Biden coalition &#8212; nobody&#8217;s happy. Progressives aren&#8217;t happy right now with how Build Back Better has gone. African American activists are not happy about how voting rights has gone. And if you look at the polling, the – honestly, the thing that&#8217;s cratering the most are independents. You know, the folks that just wanted the temperature turned down. You&#8217;re the president. What do you fix first?
JAMES CARVILLE: Well, first of all, I agree with my friend, Jim Clyburn. There&#8217;s an expression that I love. It&#8217;s called &#8220;soldier on,&#8221; right? And I don&#8217;t think we have sufficiently &#8212; if you&#8217;re a part of the Democratic base and you don&#8217;t care about child poverty, and you don&#8217;t care about hourly workers, then you&#8217;re really not a Democrat, right? Now, I think a lot of the Democratic base has not been told or informed of the things that President Biden and this Congress has accomplished. But to me, those are the things that, if I&#8217;m a Democratic, I much more care about that than some word in a dictionary &#8212; that children are going to bed with a full stomach and a warm, you know, a warm house. I care that somebody, an hourly worker, is not sitting there working away at $7.25 an hour. And I see these signs all over, even in Louisiana and south Mississippi, $700 signing bonus. Those are real accomplishments. And it&#8217;s something that you can run on. And again, you don&#8217;t talk about what you didn&#8217;t get. That&#8217;s what these &#8212; Democrats whine too much, Chuck. Just quit being a whiny party. And get out there and fight, and tell people what you did. And tell people the exact truth. The Republican Party stands for nothing other than, &#8220;Let&#8217;s relitigate the 2020 election,&#8221; or, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get back at Jamie Raskin.&#8221; That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the entire platform.
CHUCK TODD: Is there something Joe Biden can learn about the experience you helped Bill Clinton get through after &#8217;94?
JAMES CARVILLE: Soldier on. You know, you had a bad week, but you had a good year. People going &#8212; people at the end of the day, are going to judge you on your year and not your week. And this is a tough, hard business. And you&#8217;ve got ups and downs. You got, you get bruised, you get beat up. But every president goes through this. I think President Biden to have &#8212; compared his record on what&#8217;s been told is a huge differential. And I think that they&#8217;re trying. I saw they were doing &#8212; you know, I&#8217;ve been talking about infrastructure since Eisenhower built the interstate highway system. Now, we&#8217;ve got a trillion dollars&#8217; worth of infrastructure coming up. The children that are not living in poverty today are going to ride on better roads, have better broadband, cross better bridges. I mean, this is something we ought to be really proud of as Americans and we ought to talk about it, we ought to brag about it, we ought to tell people about it. If we do those kinds of things, we&#8217;ll end up with a better outcome, I promise you.
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