James Carville Trashes Dem State Party Leader: ‘You Ain’t Been Elected to Sh*t, So Why Don’t You Shut Up!’
James Carville singled out an Arizona Democratic Party leader and told him to “shut up” amid party infighting in the typically red state.
In a Thursday video for Politicon, Carville recommended Robert Branscomb, Arizona’s state party chair, pipe down after he wrote to party members firing back atSens. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), both of whom took issue with the new party chair’s staffing choices. Branscomb claimed one of those senators was “demeaning” to him, and since then numerous party officials have called for his resignation. Both senators signed their names to a letter saying Branscomb had “lost our trust.”
Carville pointed out Arizona is far from the easiest place for Democrats to get elected, so distractions like this can cost votes. Republicans outnumber Democrats in the state by approximately 300,000.
“Both Senator Gallego and Senator Kelly ran, they got elected. You ain’t been elected to shit, so why don’t you shut up?” Carville told Branscomb.
Arizona, the Democratic strategist argued, has never been a “bright spot” for Democrats, but it is today as the state has a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators. Branscomb, according to Carville, is a fork in the road for that progress.
Carville said:
That’s the problem with these people from the, quote, progressive, unquote, whatever the fuck that is, that come into these state parties that didn’t do anything, that have outstanding Democratic elected officials, fighting with the governor, we finally had a Democratic governor, and this guy exemplifies to me ‘what’s wrong with that wing of the party.’ In the story, Mr. Branstrom says, ‘I will not be coerced. I will be silenced.’ Well, why don’t you just shut up anyway, because you haven’t gotten elected to anything.
The only goal for Democrats, Carville added, is to win elections and those who can’t need to get out of the way.
“We’ve got to go to these people and they need to really consider whether they’re Democrats or not,” he said. “Maybe they ought to go join the pronoun justice, social, I don’t know, equity party or whatever they’re doing.”
Watch above via Politicon.
