James Carville has ripped into Kamala Harris’s campaign staffers after the failed Democratic presidential candidate didn’t sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan ahead of the U.S. election.
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The 80-year-old longtime Democratic strategist said Monday on a Politicon podcast that candidates must do everything they can to win elections.
“You do anything you can to win, understand that,” he said. “There’s nothing, nothing more important than winning elections.”
Rogan, who has more than 18.6 million subscribers on YouTube, hosted then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice-presidential pick JD Vance in late October, just days before the election.
Trump’s interview has been seen more than 52 million times while Vance’s chat has more than 18 million views.
“The vice president (Harris) was thinking about going on the Joe Rogan show and a lot of the younger progressive staffers pitched a hissy fit,” Carville said.
While Carville reiterated Harris’s staff claim that avoiding Rogan was not the determining factor for her election loss, he unleashed a vulgar rant about their management of her losing campaign.
“When you put a campaign together and you hire young people to do work, let me tell you exactly what you tell these people: What I would tell them, ‘Not only am I not interested in your f***ing opinion, I’m not even going to call you by your name. You’re 23 years old. I don’t really give a s*** what you think.’”
Carville then pivoted to another “huge f***ing error” by Harris staffers, who said campaigns need to “reflect progressive values.”
“No they don’t,” he retorted. “Campaigns are authoritarian by their nature, and if I were running a 2028 campaign and I had some little snot-nosed 23-year-old saying, ‘I’m going to resign if you don’t do this,’ not only would I fire that motherf***** on the spot, I would find out who hired them and fire that person on the spot.
“I’m really not interested in your uninformed, stupid, jackass opinion as to whether you’d go on Joe Rogan or not.”
According to reports, Harris has told advisers to keep her options open and is weighing whether she will mount another presidential bid for 2028.