James Carville Loses It on JD Vance Over Defense of Leaked Groupchat: ‘Can’t Win’ Without ‘These F**king Racist Kids!’
James Carville sounded off on Vice President JD Vance’s response to a story about a leaked group chat from Young Republicans leaders that included Adolf Hitler praise, racist language, and more on the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast.
Carville and co-host Al Hunt discussed the explosive Politico story this week that revealed Telegram chat messages between multiple Young Republicans leaders. In the 2,900 pages of leaked messages, Politico found praise for Hitler and racist comments that referred to Black people as “monkeys” and “watermelon people.”
Vance dismissed the “pearl clutching” reactions to the chat and brought up another scandal involving Virginia Democrat Jay Jones. The state attorney general hopeful sent texts in which he called for violence against Republican opponents. One text said then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert should get “two bullets to the head.”
“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” Vance wrote.
Carville argued on Wednesday that the true story in the leaked group chat is Vance’s reaction.
“Look, these are a bunch of f**king racist kids. Did anybody not know this is who a segment of the Young Republicans were? Not all Young Republicans are like this, but everybody knew that this was a kind of draw for a number of them,” he said.
Carville added that Republicans get plenty upset over the language of Democrats, and the dismissal of the group chat now is pure political strategy. According to Carville, Vance and President Donald Trump need these “f**king racist kids” to win elections.
“Any time that any Democrat says something really stupid, alright, then it’s all, oh my God, and such and such. You’ve got to read what JD Vance wrote, that’s right, JD f**king Vance. The vice president of the United States thought it was funny and thought people were just overreacting to it,” he said.
Republicans, he argued, are “outgunning” Democrats because Democrats “pay” for every “goofy” moment or quote, while Republicans can dismiss “racists.”
Carville continued:
We’re sitting here worried about some little 20-year-old snot nose in Kansas who’s [an] insignificant little s**t if one ever lived. And we’re not focusing on the big target, on the main target, which is JD Vance. And we know — I don’t, everybody calm down, I’m not saying that all, Trump supporters are racists, but I will say this — all racists are Trump supporters, okay? There’s not a person on this group track that’s ever voted for a Democrat. But JD Vance is fine with it. It’s just a little random, just like Trump had no problem at all with David Duke. “I hardly know the guy. What about him?” Oh, yeah, yeah, sure… They get all the votes from all of these people, and we don’t make them pay. We just let them come inside on us. We don’t knock them back.
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