{"id":2336020,"date":"2024-09-03T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-carville-lays-out-path-for-underdog-harris-to-beat-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:49:51","slug":"james-carville-lays-out-path-for-underdog-harris-to-beat-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-carville-lays-out-path-for-underdog-harris-to-beat-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"James Carville lays out path for \u2018underdog\u2019 Harris to beat Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-carville-lays-out-path-for-underdog-harris-to-beat-trump-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2336020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic political commentator James \u200bCarville has outlined a three-step strategy for Vice President Kamala Harris to enhance her\u200c chances of defeating Donald Trump in the upcoming election. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-publishes-op-ed-slamming-gop-for-weaponization-of-his-drug-addiction\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden slams GOP for exploiting his drug addiction.\">op-ed \u200bpublished<\/a> in the New York Times, Carville emphasized that while Trump remains a highly recognizable figure in\u2062 politics, Harris&#8217;s\u2063 relative anonymity positions her as\u200c a potential &#8220;change&#8221; candidate. He believes\u2063 that\u2063 Trump\u2019s established presence works to her advantage because voters are already well-acquainted with his persona.<\/p>\n<p>Carville underscored that Trump\u2019s approval ratings have consistently \u200dhovered\u2062 in the mid to \u200blow 40s, reflecting a\u2062 settled opinion among the public \u200babout his leadership despite \u200ccontroversies \u200csurrounding his presidency. He also indicated that Harris should exploit \u2062opportunities to challenge Trump\u200c directly during debates, suggesting \u2062that she should allow him to dominate the conversation at times and spur him into making irrational statements, thereby undermining his credibility. Harris&#8217;s recent interview\u200b on CNN, where she\u200b refrained\u2064 from engaging directly with\u2063 his rhetoric, was mentioned as a point where she could have taken a firmer stance.<\/p>\n<p>Carville&#8217;s insights come at a time when Harris and Minnesota Governor\u200c Tim Walz\u200b have\u200c been portrayed as underdogs in\u200d their \u200dcampaign, despite favorable polling data.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">James Carville lays out path for &lsquo;underdog&rsquo; Harris to beat Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1741884\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Democratic political pundit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-carville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>James Carville<\/a> laid out what he believes are three steps Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> needs to take to secure a win this November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Carville said former President Donald Trump has been the most recognizable figure in politics &ldquo;since he moseyed down that golden escalator in 2015&rdquo; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/03\/opinion\/harris-trump-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>an op-ed published<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em>. Despite his and other Democrats&rsquo; frustration with Trump&rsquo;s all-encompassing presence, Carville argued it offers Harris the clearest path to victory because she is still relatively unknown and can be viewed as the &ldquo;change&rdquo; candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Whether they hate him or love him, people know exactly what Mr. Trump&rsquo;s shtick is,&rdquo; Carville wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is why, despite every terrible consequence of his presidency, Mr. Trump&rsquo;s approval rating has never much strayed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/trump-approval-ratings\/\">mid- to low 40s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/favorability\/donald-trump\/\">for nearly<\/a> a decade. No matter his divisive policies, COVID, the indictments, who his No. 2 was or whatever bile he spewed on social media, the jury of public opinion on Donald Trump is settled,&rdquo; Carville continued.<\/p>\n<p>Carville&rsquo;s advice came out days after Jen O&rsquo;Malley Dillon, the Harris campaign&rsquo;s chairwoman, released a memo referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-campaign-describes-itself-as-clear-underdogs-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris campaign describes itself as &#039;clear underdogs&#039; - Washington Examiner\">clear underdogs&#038;rdquo<\/a>; despite their leads in several poll aggregators.<\/p>\n<p>Carville also directed Harris to &ldquo;help Trump hurt himself&rdquo; in the Sept. 10 debate on ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ms. Harris must enable exactly what his campaign is scared to death of: letting Trump be Trump. She should let him talk over her. Not just let him but goad him into spouting insane conspiracy theories about the previous election. She should use her sense of humor at key moments to get under his skin and show he&rsquo;s not getting to her,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to Harris&rsquo;s recent CNN interview, in which she did not comment on Trump&rsquo;s personal attacks on her racial identity, and said Harris should take a similar approach on the debate stage and &ldquo;welcome the personal attacks as a badge of honor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Carville also advised Harris to break from President Joe Biden&rsquo;s policies &ldquo;to be the certified fresh candidate.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ms. Harris must clearly and decisively break from Mr. Biden on a set of policy priorities she believes would define her presidency,&rdquo; Carville wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his final point of&nbsp;advice to the Harris campaign, Carville advised Harris to &ldquo;display a clear growth mindset from the 2020 Democratic primaries.&rdquo; While the 2020 Democratic primaries were a race to the left for the majority of candidates, those opposed to Harris have focused on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-comes-into-his-own-as-trump-attack-dog-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Vance comes into his own as Trump attack dog - Washington Examiner\">policy flip-flops<\/a> since then.<\/p>\n<p>Carville noted her policy reversals will &ldquo;be a consistent plotline deployed at her throughout this campaign&rdquo; but that &ldquo;it is vital that she give the same answer every time to these attacks. The retort can be simple: I learned from my time governing in the White House. These are my positions. Take it or leave it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1741884\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1741884\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Carville outlines a strategy for &#8216;underdog&#8217; Harris to defeat Trump. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Democratic strategist James Carville detailed three key actions Vice President Kamala Harris should take to achieve victory this November. He noted that Donald Trump has been a dominant figure in politics since his 2015 campaign launch, and while this frustrates many Democrats, it presents an opportunity for Harris as she remains relatively unknown and can be seen as a candidate of change. Carville emphasized that public opinion on Trump is firmly established despite his controversial presidency, which has kept his approval ratings consistently in the low to mid-40s.<\/p>\n<p>Carville&#8217;s recommendations followed a memo from Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon, chairwoman of the Harris campaign, who described both Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as &#8220;clear underdogs&#8221; despite their polling leads. He advised Harris to encourage Trump to reveal himself during their upcoming debate by allowing him to dominate the conversation and provoke him into making outrageous claims about past elections. He suggested she use humor strategically to maintain her composure.<\/p>\n<p>Carville also pointed out that during her recent CNN interview, where she did not respond directly to Trump&#8217;s personal attacks regarding her racial identity, she should adopt a similar stance in debates by embracing such attacks as signs of strength. Additionally, he urged her to distinguish herself from President Biden&#8217;s policies by clearly articulating her own priorities for potential future leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Carville encouraged Harris to demonstrate growth since the 2020 Democratic primaries by consistently addressing criticisms about her policy changes with confidence: &#8220;I learned from my time governing in the White House. These are my positions. Take it or leave it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2336021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/james-carville-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32431,32512,32438,32504,3634],"class_list":["post-2336020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2024-election","tag-james-carville","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-strategy","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/james-carville-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}