Democratic strategist James Carville is looking to the future and, in a surprising remark about the 2028 presidential election, suggested Tuesday that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have his support if she entered the race and nabbed the nomination.
Carville was reacting on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” to a recent poll that saw voters name Ocasio-Cortez as the face of the Democratic Party, even ahead of her more established peers Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Look, we lost the election,” Carville told Melber. “I don’t like the party. I don’t blame the party reputation for being low, but I think that if AOC wants to run for president and she gets the nominee, then God bless you, you are the leader of the Democratic Party.”
“And whoever gets that nomination is gonna be it, and that’s all,” he continued.
The comment appeared to take Melber by surprise, as Carville recently argued Democrats would be “better off” without progressives like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez defining the party — and stated quite directly in April that he isn’t “impressed” by either of them.
