Democratic political operative James Carville this week expressed bewilderment at former President Donald Trump's campaign and its reaction to Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
During an appearance on Bill Kristol's podcast, Carville broke down Harris' strengths and weaknesses as a candidate before talking about what he sees as a completely flat-footed reaction from the Trump campaign.
"Something is going on at Mar-a-Lago and I'm not sure what it is," he said. "LaCivita, Susie Wiles, they’re not stupid. They’ve won elections before. And what's coming out of there is, you're right, they don't know where to go. They let it get away from them. It was like they got hit in the mouth... They didn't see this coming? If you or I were running that campaign, we'd say, look, there's three things that can happen: Biden drops out, it's Harris; Biden drops out it's an open [convention primary] thing... but you would have a plan that you would pull off the shelf."
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What has been happening, Carville argued Thursday, shows no signs of such preparation.
"From what little I can read, they were just standing there feeling good about themselves and they got hit in the mouth," he said. "And there was no concerted, organized, thought-out reaction. Which is pretty amazing! It really is!"
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