
Democratic strategist James Carville warned Monday that the 2024 election illustrated his partyâs significant issue with male voters.
Carville told The New York Times in March that having âtoo many preachy femalesâ was driving men away from the Democratic Partyâs declining popularity with male voters, with President-elect Donald Trump subsequently making gains among Hispanic and black men in November. The Democratic strategist, on âMorning Joe,â argued the election results proved his March warning correct and urged Democrats to mitigate their struggles with male voters.
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âIt was not a landslide, but it was a very troubling election for Democrats,â Carville told host Joe Scarborough. Scarborough asked Carville to âhighlight a couple of the troubling things,â prompting the Democratic strategist to discuss the gender issue.
âBack in March, I said that I thought Democratic campaign culture had âtoo many preachy females.â Well, they all had a conniption. Have you looked at the male vote that we got in November? You know, no one since November has come up and said a thing to me,â he said. âPrimarily, we have a large problem with males, and Iâm not just talking about white males like you and I. Iâm talking about males all across, and we need to address that. And we donât need to be shouted down by Washington liberal advocacy groups or NPR.â
âWe got to say we got a male problem and we need to get to work on it. And I think we can ⌠we lost a lot of ground with males and we donât need to sweep these things under the rug,â Carville added. âWe need to expose them and talk about them and discuss them.â
Trump became the first Republican nominee to secure the majority of the Latino male vote in the 2024 election, garnering 55% support, according to a NBC News exit poll.
Shortly after Trumpâs victory, Carville expressed disgust with the large number of Americans who voted for him. The president-elect has received over 77 million votes and just under 50% of the total as of Monday morning, according to the Cook Political Report.
âIâm sure Iâll come up with something to make me feel good again, but right now, today, itâs hard, Iâll be honest with you,â Carville said at the time. âAnd the hardest thing is that I look across this country, and tens of millions of people fell for this shit, and itâs just, itâs depressing, but I will snap out of it.â
âItâs not hard to say thereâve been plenty of criminals, charlatans, conmen, traitors, scumbags â weâve had all of that before. But I donât â weâve never had remotely â and people embracing and endorsing this is â itâs just, itâs sickening,â he added. âBut this guy got 50%, okay? They can make the argument Hitler never got 33. Okay, this is frightening that we would get here, and by the way, in 4% unemployment. Okay, I mean, Iâm sorry.â
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