James Carville Says He’s ‘Scared To Death’ About Election Day, Calls On Kamala To Get ‘Aggressive’

Democratic strategist James Carville said on Wednesday night that he’s “scared to death” about Election Day, warning that Vice President Kamala Harris is running out of time to “get a message out.”

Carville appeared on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show to discuss the state of the 2024 race with less than four weeks remaining. The former Bill Clinton adviser said the Harris campaign has “under 20 days” to “really get a message out,” adding that he’s “very, very concerned” as Harris heads into the final stretch of the campaign, Mediaite reported.

Asked by Melber what he thinks Harris needs to do in the campaign’s final month, Carville replied, “She doesn’t have a month left. We’ve got 26 days. Today is gone. You’re going to lose four to the hurricane. Just subtract that. We’re going to get blank — you’re not going to get much out for the next four days. And everything, kind of, shuts down the Saturday before the election, so you’re really probably under 20 days that you have to really get a message out.”

“They need to be sharp. They need to be aggressive. They need to stop answering questions and start asking questions,” Carville added. “They’re doing all this and sitting down with ’60 Minutes’ and sitting down with [Stephen] Colbert … no matter what, if I come on your show, you will ask me the questions. If I have a press conference, I get to ask the questions.”

The Democratic strategist also said he’s frustrated with what he sees as a missed opportunity for the Harris campaign to challenge the Trump running mate JD Vance’s argument that the former president “saved Obamacare.”

“I would put President Obama out to make that [challenge]. … He only is the author, the father of 23 million people having insurance,” he continued. “I would have President Clinton going on these local TV stations talking about how tariffs are going to destroy the economy of Wisconsin or Michigan.”

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“But we’re just letting that go,” Carville said. “And I think she and the whole campaign need to be much more aggressive and much less passive than they are.”

Trump has recently started to pull ahead of Harris in the polls in vital battleground states, leading the Democrat in five out of the seven battleground states as of Thursday morning, according to RealClearPolitics.

Harris, meanwhile, has been blasted for comments she made during interviews earlier this week with “60 Minutes” and “The View.” During her interview with “60 Minutes,” Harris dodged answering questions on the border crisis that has skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration. Harris was also slammed after saying on “The View” that “nothing comes to mind” when she was asked about what she would have done anything differently than President Biden.