James Carville on Biden, Trump, the Democrats, and 2024

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

t’s 14 months before the presidential election. With a Trump v. Biden matchup on the horizon, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville begins with a bracing assessment: “If this election was this November…Biden would be a betting underdog.” In this Conversation, James Carville shares his concerns about Biden’s candidacy and his perspective on the race ahead. Should other Democrats challenge Biden and get into the primary race? Is Trump inevitable on the Republican side? What factors might confound our expectations? In this witty, wide-ranging, and thoughtful Conversation—our 250th episode!—Carville and Kristol reflect on these questions and other factors that might upend our politics as we head toward the 2024 presidential election. As we release episode 250, we want to thank our viewers and listeners who have been with us since the beginning—and those who are joining us now. It’s been quite a time. And we have no intention of slowing down.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome back to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be joined again today by James Carville, who needs no introduction obviously the great campaign manager political
0:25.9	strategist lifelong Democrat but very fine commentator and fair commentator about American politics in general.
0:34.1	We've done two conversations with James which both stand up well from early 2021 and
0:39.6	then just the beginning of this year, January 2023, which you can look back at as well and
0:45.2	James thanks for joining me again. I always love to do it.
0:49.5	Okay so let's just here we are it's an, it's great to have you. Okay, so let's just, here we are, it's an election.
0:54.0	It's the past Labor Day.
0:55.0	The election campaign has officially, it shows how old I am, but I think that Labor Day means something
0:59.6	about the beginning of the election campaign, but still it is sort of the beginning right the year before and then the year of.
1:05.2	So, Pass Labor Day 2023. What, how do we stand? Let's begin with Trump.
1:10.5	You would sort of hopeful, I guess I look back at the January
1:14.0	2023 conversation that he might face the real opposition there might be people
1:18.8	might be getting tired of him on the Republican side not Not so much, huh? No, not yet, and that's an important
1:27.4	qualifier. But I make one factual point. If this election was this November, okay I know it's not, but
1:34.9	assume that it was the candidates for Joe Biden, the Democrat, Donald Trump, the
1:38.0	Republican, Joe Manchin, Larry Hogan, no labels in Cornell West,
1:43.8	Biden would be an up betting underdog.
1:46.6	That's just a fact.
1:47.6	There's nobody that would dispute that at all.
1:51.4	And that would be a catastrophic result for the country. I think we can easily say that.
2:00.0	So, uh, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a lot of banana peals out there.
2:08.0	I'll leave it at that, you know, people can slip on but that's where we are right now September 13th
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