Democratic strategist James Carville has broken his silence on the current trajectory of the 2024 election.
“Early indications here are not sterling,” Carville said on Amazon’s live Election Day coverage, indicating that current results appear to be leaning red.
Not a single swing state had been called as of 8:45 p.m., though GOP former President Donald Trump has been showing significant improvements overall so far compared to his 2020 contest against Joe Biden.
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Carville — the architect of Bill Clinton’s successful insurgent 1992 presidential campaign — on Friday predicted an electoral victory for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“She’s got more money, got more energy, has a more united party, has better surrogates — and he’s stone a– nuts,” the Louisiana-based analyst said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Public polling showed a near-toss-up election as voters headed to cast ballots Tuesday morning.
But Carville, nicknamed the Ragin’ Cajun, also often warned the Harris campaign that the surveys weren’t as rosy as they seemed.
“I challenge Democrats with some caution here. First of all, most want to say we have to win by three in the popular vote to win the Electoral College,” Carville said on “Real Time with Bill Maher” in August.
Carville previously predicted that Harris would win the election. Getty Images for Amazon Studios“So when you see a poll that says … two up, well, that’s actually, you’re one down, if the poll is correct,” he added.
“The other thing is, Trump traditionally, when he’s on the ballot, chronically under-polls,” Carville said at the time.
Key voter demographics for Harris — including Hispanics, college-educated voters and independents — have been swinging toward Trump by wider margins than predicted so far, according to some exit polls and early vote dumps.
Not a single swing state has been called.
