James Carville’s Case For Reshuffling The Democratic Deck

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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John is joined by James Carville, the most celebrated political strategist of the modern era—and one of the earliest and loudest influential Democrats to argue that voters’ doubts about Joe Biden’s capacity to serve well into his eighties could be his undoing. James explains his conviction that, despite Biden’s determination to stay in the race, he'll almost certainly have no choice but to drop out; why asking an electorate hungry for change and a champion who embodies the future to swallow a status quo candidate who embodies the past was unwise from the jump; and how a wide-open, multi-candidate bake-off showcasing his party’s deep bench of young talent—and presided over by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—could be the cure for what ails Democrats (and rid us all of Trump in the bargain). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aloha I'm not my stay everyone and welcome to in politics with John Heilman my new
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0:50.6	influence in America shaping our culture and especially our politics and today
0:55.2	today we are honored and delighted and overwhelmed and overjoyed to have with us a living legend
1:02.1	and one of my all-time favorite guests on any show I have ever been involved in,
1:06.0	a man who's known to the four corners of the earth as the Rage and Cajun,
1:10.0	but even more affectionately and just as accurately known to his wife Mary Madeline as
1:15.1	old Serpent Head, the one the only Chester James Carbel Jr. James's resume is long and glittering, but I will not waste your time or my words running
1:26.2	down it except to mention the entry that is already firmly enshrined in the annals of
1:32.1	modern political history.
1:33.8	In 1992, James not only served as the strategic Svengali,
1:38.0	the animating spirit, and the scrappy streetfighters heart and soul
1:41.2	of Bill Clinton's bid for the White House.
1:43.0	Leading the charge that turned a slick, brilliant, morally slippery,
1:47.8	generationally talented, donut scarfing, charisma oozing,
1:51.5	lower lip biting, policy spouting governor of a small poor
1:54.8	obscure southern state into the 43rd president of the United States. Not only did
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