Chris Cuomo Tells James Carville He’s Selling Democrats Magic Beans: ‘That Road Got Them Where They Are’
Chris Cuomo warned James Carville he was selling a failed and over-used strategy to Democrats with his advice on how to take on President Donald Trump.
Longtime Democratic strategist Carville joined Cuomo on NewsNation on Tuesday where he went off on Trump, accusing him of corruption on a number of fronts, from accepting a $400 million plane being gifted to him by Qatar to his forays into cryptocurrency. Trump has faced bipartisan backlash over the plane, but he told reporters it would be “stupid” not to accept it.
Cuomo pushed back on his guest suggesting that Democrats “jump” on the “corruption” narrative and “never get off of it.”
“He’s taking a $400 million jet for lifetime use from a foreign government. He’s selling places at a White House dinner for people that buy his meme coin, which goes right into his pocket. And that’s what the tragedy is. That’s what Democrats need to do. They need to jump on this corruption and never get off of it,” the strategist said.
Carville also recommended his fellow Democrats attack Trump on proposed Medicaid work requirements for “able-bodied” people and more.
“If they want to do something they have right now, the proposal they have, according to the CBO, is going to knock 8.6 million people off of health insurance. This is why, while he’s having dinner at the White House, rewarding people who are giving him money, taking airplanes, knocking 8. 6 million people off of health insurance — if the Democrats can’t message against that, then they ought to just blow themselves up. But I think they can,” Carville said.
“I’m fine with them messaging about that. I would not go down the corruption road though. That road got them where they are. I don’t think it gets them where they want to be,” Cuomo said about the “corruption” angle and Democrats’ history of accusing Trump of illegal activity.
Carville was unwavering on his advice to his party.
“I’d never get off the corruption road. And it’s not gonna stop. It’s gonna keep, we’re gonna keep finding, every day we’re going to find out more and more and more. That’s what I really believe,” he said. “And I think we ought to play right into, give me the reason why a food inspector has a more stringent code of ethics than the president of the United States. Why does a third grader have to listen when a teacher tells him something, but the president doesn’t have to listen anybody?”
Watch above via NewsNation.
