WASHINGTON (TND) — Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday called on Vice President Kamala Harris to answer for her far-left past, saying her upcoming CNN interview is the perfect opportunity to do so.
Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit for their first major interview Thursday night at a crucial moment for the campaign to explain its stances on policy issues. Carville said Harris in the interview must reckon with her far-left past to court hesitant Democratic voters.
"She’s going to have to answer for it, and I hope she has an encompassing answer,” he said. “Because it is an absolute truism of American politics that anybody that ever listens to a single thing that the identity left ever said has lived to regret it. It’s just a fact, and she’s said some things she’s going to have to answer for. “
Some progressive stances Harris took during her 2019 run for president have come under scrutiny recently, including support for Medicare-for-All and banning fracking.
I think she can,” Carville added. “I don’t think it’s fatal. I think a bad answer would hurt her a lot. But she’s got to answer it. There’s no doubt about it."Carville has been a cautious supporter of Harris throughout her campaign, but urged Democrats not to get carried away with early excitement. The strategist in July predicted “tough sledding ahead” for the vice president.
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“It’s going to be very close, and I understand that people are feeling a lot better, and they're excited,” Carville said. “But that excitement has got to be tempered with realism, and the realism is she has a tough campaign on, and as you say, she’s got several things she’s got to accomplish at the same time.”
“And all I’m saying to Democrats is enjoy yourself, feel good, but it’s tough sledding ahead, and let’s get together and get this thing done,” he added.
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