James Carville hung his head in shame while revealing the unbelievably shocking reason Democrats got the 2024 election so wrong

James Carville is known as one of the top Democrat political strategists of all-time.

He is famous for coining the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid” in order to keep his campaigns focused on kitchen table issues that matter most to voters. 

But now James Carville hung his head in shame while revealing the unbelievably shocking reason Democrats got the 2024 election so wrong.

“It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid”

Democrat strategist James Carville recently penned an op-ed in which he made a rare admission that he was wrong about the 2024 election.

This admission comes after Carville repeatedly predicted Vice President Kamala Harris would beat President-elect Donald Trump handedly.

“I thought Kamala Harris would win. I was wrong. While I’m sure we Democrats can argue that the loss wasn’t a landslide or take a little solace in our House performance, the most important thing for us now is to face that we were wrong and take action on the prevailing ‘why,’” Carville wrote.

Carville had previously written an op-ed for the New York Times entitled, “Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”

The former Clinton strategist also said during a pre-election interview on MSNBC that Harris would win because Donald Trump is “stone a– nuts.”

Clearly the American people did not agree with Carville’s assessment of the now President-elect.

“We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is and it always will be the economy, stupid. We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not get distracted by anything else,” Carville continued, referencing his famous catch phrase. 

He went on to urge Democrats to work to win back the economic narrative. 

“Mr. Trump, for the first time in his political career, decisively won by seizing a swath of middle-class and low-income voters focused on the economy. Democrats have flat-out lost the economic narrative. The only path to electoral salvation is to take it back,” the Democrat strategist continued.

Democrats are out to lunch on the economy

Carville also said that Americans thought Democrats were “out to lunch” when it came to the economy and feeling their pain.

He wrote that Democrats need to stop making Trump the focus of their messaging, and said many voters simply didn’t care about the President-elect’s indictments, or social issues, “if they cannot provide for themselves or their families.”

“This year, the Democratic Party leadership must convene and publish a creative, popular and bold economic agenda and proactively take back our economic turf. Go big, go populist, stick to economic progress — and force them to oppose what they cannot be for. In unison,” Carville wrote.

Carville also urged Democrats to make further use of podcasts, influencers, and non-traditional media to get their message out, acknowledging the “new media paradigm we now live in.”

“To Democratic presidential hopefuls, your auditions for 2028 should be based on two things: 1) How authentic you are on the economy and 2) how well you deliver it on a podcast,” he continued. “The road ahead will not be easy, but there are no two roads to choose from. The path forward could not be more certain: We live or die by winning public perception of the economy.”

Carville blamed Harris’ loss on her failure to differentiate herself from President Biden and specifically pointed to the Vice President’s disastrous interview on The View.

“I think if this campaign is reducible to one moment, we are in a 65% wrong-track country. The country wants something different. And she’s asked, as is so often the case, in a friendly audience, on ‘The View,’ ‘How would you be different than Biden?’ That’s the one question that you exist to answer, alright? That is it. That’s the money question. That’s the one you want. That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to. And you freeze! You literally freeze and say, ‘Well, I can’t think of anything,’” Carville said during a podcast interview in November. 

What Carville is missing out on is the fact that it’s Democrats’ economic policies that have caused massive damage to the nation.

And unless they stop attempting to force socialism down Americans’ throats, they are destined to fail again.