James Carville Calls Kamala Harris a ‘7th String Quarterback’

CARVILLE: “We ran a presidential election. If we were playing the Superbowl, we started our seventh string quarterback. That’s what happened. Okay. You can’t — you can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem. And None of this was inevitable. Now, if you would have put the staggering talent that exists in today’s Democratic Party, let me just — you heard what I said, the staggering talent that exists in today’s Democratic Party and people would have seen that, they’d go, ‘I didn’t know they had people like that, that can actually complete a sentence, that actually know how to frame a message, that actually have a sense of accomplishment of doing something.’ It would have excited people and we would have had people from the middle of the country and people on the coast, it would’ve been diverse, it would’ve been — and then when you do that, that’s how people get involved in politics. We have not had an inspirational presidential candidate since 2012. That’s a problem.”
MURPHY: “When you have a primary and a contest like the playoff, you get a big winner and that credentials the nominee, they earn it. James suggested earlier, and I was 1000% for this, we can have a short primary Here Instead of anointing somebody. And I got called to, like, a secret meeting with a bunch of senior White House People after the terrible Biden debate with some other non-Trump — you know, Trump-opposing Republicans, and I said, ‘This Carville thing is right. Go do a mini — let Whitmer beat somebody, or if Kamala is tat good, let her beat somebody to make her somebody, not just an appointment. She was nominated on a telephone conference call.”