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James Carville

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James Carville is a prominent American political consultant and commentator, best known for his role as the lead strategist for Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign. A member of the Democratic Party, Carville has been influential in shaping modern campaign strategies and is recognized for his ability to connect with voters. He was born on March 25, 1944, in Louisiana, where he has remained a significant figure in both state and national politics. Carville is also known for his engaging personality and sharp wit, often appearing in media to discuss political issues and strategies.

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Feb 18, 2021

Texas, they`re very resilient people. They`re intelligent people. They`re going to come back, I promise you. I promise you, they will come back.

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Feb 18, 2021

It`s one of the few moments of unity I have seen in 2021 in politics.

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Feb 18, 2021

There is a lot of circular firing squad.

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Feb 18, 2021

Well, I`m not going to declare this the worst scandal in modern American politics, but I`m going to declare it at the very top of the most delicious scandals in American politics.

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Feb 18, 2021

Senator Cruz, you have provided some real comedy for people.

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Feb 18, 2021

I think he`s doing extraordinarily well and his demeanor and his policies and everything that he`s done so far, but this is not going to last but right now, I`m 100 percent.

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Feb 18, 2021

I think the most interesting thing is to Cruz family, friends, dime them, these texts that they were doing, and we`re going to go to Cancun, and we`re going to stay till Sunday, and we got a room at the Ritz Carlton for, I don`t know, $300…

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Feb 16, 2021

Because he is a really good leader. He is a humane, decent man. He is not a jerk. And that`s good for 20 points in American politics.

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Feb 16, 2021

We sure don’t want the president to tell us that we`re hopelessly divided. I completely agree that he should talk about unifying the country and that his program to deal with COVID relief is going to go across a broad spectrum of America.

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Feb 4, 2021

I actually do think we`ll pick up a couple of more Republican senators, I think people are going to be stunned at how powerful the presentation is of the House impeachment managers.

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Feb 4, 2021

I mean, this is not just some loony stuff. She’s a Looney in a tune. And they won’t do anything about it.

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Jan 7, 2021

Well, that guy is one of the better educated people in the United States government. And no one ever --

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Jan 7, 2021

I think the question going forward is high turnout and become a characteristic going forward, and hopefully the Democrats can replicate that kind of thing and 2022, which is going to be hard to do that turnout was just staggering.

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Jan 4, 2021

Boy, we win these two seats, everything's different tomorrow.

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Jan 4, 2021

If we win these two seats, they're going to taste different tomorrow. It's going to affect everything.

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Jan 4, 2021

These issues will be infinitely better with Reverend Warnock in the Senate, as opposed to Kelly Loeffler.

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Dec 17, 2020

I think that they really love the United States and I think they pull in that President-Elect Biden you can try to pull this country together.

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Dec 17, 2020

The commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces has abandoned his post, that's the most serious thing that a person on service can do is abandon one's post and he has abandoned his post.

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Dec 14, 2020

Without power, you have nothing.

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Dec 14, 2020

If you don't have power, you got nothing, right? If you don't get these two Senate seats, your world is so fundamentally different.

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Dec 14, 2020

And from now on, they have to -- in Washington, they're very concerned about who's at the table. And the rest of the country, they're more concerned about what's on the table.

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Dec 14, 2020

People, if they want to raise the minimum wage, you want to expand health care, you got to get immediate COVID really. Families are suffering out there.

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Dec 10, 2020

I see polling, I do calculations all the time. I don't think anyone can really know because first of all, we don't know how the Republicans are going to react or come out wolf of chocolate or Democrats do react.

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Dec 10, 2020

Ted Cruz is an educated intelligent man. Trump attacked his wife and attacked his father. I mean, if anybody in the world knows better than Ted Cruz, I have -- I can't explain it.

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Dec 10, 2020

Everything. I can't think of a single thing that didn't work. And I'm gratified that President Biden is going to be president, but the reaction to this pandemic direction to this election. Everything that happened is just staggering.

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