During a Sunday broadcast of “The Cats Roundtable” on New York City radio WABC, longtime Democratic political strategist James Carville acknowledged that he regrets President Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection in 2024.
Carville told WABC host John Catsimatidis that there was a deep pool of candidates available if Biden was forced to step down, but acknowledged that the sitting president should have considered sitting out this time.
“By the way, we were discussing over breakfast what would happen to the Democratic Party if President Biden decided not to run, or if he became too ill to run,” Catsimatidis asked.
“One of the things that’s underappreciated about the current state of the Democratic Party is that there are so many — I mean, you can almost say there’s no one like Bill Clinton, you can’t say that about anybody — but there are so many incumbents who have that kind of skill,” Carville responded. “I’m not gonna name names, I’m gonna borrow somebody, I hate that, but the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, the governor of Kentucky is one of the most talented people I’ve ever seen. You also have Senator Warnock of Georgia.”
“[Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear] “He’s a really talented guy,” he added. “He’s a good friend of mine. He’s a Democrat. [were down from 20 points]and he won by five or six points. But there are a lot of other talented people out there, many of them young, dynamic, full of energy. And by the way, I think Hakeem Jeffries is doing a much better job as a leader than he was. But I don’t think so. I think Biden, President Biden should have considered not running, but that was not his choice. So I have to live in this world, not the world I wanted to live in.”
(h/t NY Post)
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