James Carville, 79, had a complete vulgar meltdown against young people voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, calling 26-year-olds ‘sons of bitches’.
In a video circulating on social media Monday, the former Clinton adviser has a complete meltdown after polls showed younger Democratic and left-leaning voters do not feel encouraged to cast their ballots for President Joe Biden in November.
Carville blamed “Democratic messaging” for the dip in support among young people, claiming that issues on which Biden ranks low, such as the Israel-Hamas war and student debt, are much lower on the list of concerns are actually important to young voters.
“You wouldn’t know that from reading the damn press,” Carville said in his unhinged tirade. “High on the list was abortion, interest rates and housing affordability.”
James Carville railed against younger voters who might cast their ballots for former President Donald Trump, telling Democrats to “get off your asshole and vote.”
The former Clinton adviser said in a video on social media: “If (Trump) gains traction, there will be no more government, there will be no more rights, you will live under a theocracy, you will end up with Christian nationalism. But that’s okay, you little damn 26 year old, you don’t feel like the elections are important’
“To some extent, you are being underserved by the Democratic message,” Carville concluded.
“So my advice to tell these young people is to get off your ass and go vote because you should vote like your entire future and the entire future of the United States depends on it because quite frankly it does . And that is not an exaggeration.’
A CNN poll released Sunday shows Biden’s worst-ranked issue is his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza, with 71 percent disapproval — and 81 percent disapproval among those under 35.
Carville, a longtime political figure in Washington DC, helped lead Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign against incumbent George HW Bush. He also advised the ex-president’s wife, Hillary Clinton, during her 2008 primaries, which she ultimately lost to Barack Obama.
He remains very outspoken about his opposition to Trump well into his 70s.
‘Are you joking? Is this the United State of America? Is this the nation founded on the principle that no one is above the law?” Carville said, referring to the various lawsuits against the former president.
“Tell these young people, if you don’t get involved in this election now, they’re going to be involved in your lives for the rest of your damn life,” he said, specifically claiming those people are Trump and conservative. Supreme Court justices and the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.
“If they get a grip, there will be no more government, there will be no more rights, you will live under a theocracy, you will end up with Christian nationalism,” he continued in his angry rant. “But that’s okay, you little 26-year-old, you don’t feel like the election is important.”
Then Carville, in a nasal voice meant to mock younger voters, dismissed concerns about certain political issues with, “They don’t address the issues that interest me.”
Carville (right) was an advisor to both the 1992 presidential campaign for Bill Clinton (right) and the 2008 primary campaign for his wife Hillary Clinton
Carville was dragged online for railing against young voters.
‘Excellent reach to young voters James. The kids love nothing more than being scolded by a lizard person,” wrote one filmmaker in response to Carville’s video viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
Right-wing political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza wrote: ‘James Carville is having a meltdown over the fact that young people aren’t more enthusiastic about giving another four years to the corrupt, senile, shuffling pervert in the Oval Office. Fun to watch!’
“James Carville turns up the hyperbole from an 11 to a 100 as despair sets in over the failing Biden campaign,” one user wrote.
Brian Krassenstein, an anti-Trump political commentator, is also not happy with Carville’s messages.
“Okay, so I despise Trump,” he wrote on X. “I think he would be a disaster for this country, but this is too extreme.”
‘Trump was already president and the institutions were holding strong. “We have not ended up in a theocracy, we have not lost all our rights, and the government is still there,” he added. “I think we should focus more on policy proposals rather than outright scaremongering.”
“Don’t sound like a lunatic melting down. That serves no purpose other than to make people think everyone on the left is crazy.”