WOW! On MSNBC 11th Hour: James Carville says Biden should do what Bernie says!

[JoeOtterbein]

I'm blown away!

To paraphrase; He said Biden should offer more on policy!

WOW!!!!

[msongs]

1. well what one is for is always a nice balance to making it all about trump 24/7 nt

[soothsayer]

2. I think Biden does that already, along with reminding us what a decent human looks like

I see all kinds of Biden tweets that lead to plans and stuff.

But maybe he’s saying get that out more broadly?

Idk.

[Grasswire2]

3. Carville also called himself a Bernie Bro. nt

[JoeOtterbein]

4. I think he said he was no Bernie Bro.

[Grasswire2]

16. oh. I misheard, then. nt

[Celerity]

18. yes, he was deffo not a Bro at all, he was vehemently against Sanders nt

[helpisontheway]

14. I doubt that is true. He was very concerned when it looked like Bernie was gonna be the nminer. Nt

[Marie Marie]

15. Carville said that he is not a Bernie Bro.

[uponit7771]

5. I think that is coming, right now the contrast couldn't be more clear

[BlueLucy]

6. Why would you be "blown away" about that?

Carville says he is a " Bernie bro."

[JoeOtterbein]

7. I'm a Bernie Bro who wishes that was true.

Actually, he is not.

[Green Line]

8. He said he's no Bernie bro

[JoeOtterbein]

9. +1 nt

[radius777]

13. Carville said: "I'm hardly a Bernie Bro but

I agree with his advice to the Biden campaign."

[radius777]

10. Carville knows what he's talking about.

I'm not a big fan of the Bernie wing, but the article in WaPo that came out the other day was very good, in terms of critiquing the weaknesses of the Biden campaign.

A great Dem once said 'it's the economy, stupid' and we can't allow Trump to beat us on this issue, which polls show to be Trump's one strong point.

We keep hearing that Trump lied about the virus, but we don't hear why. It's up to Biden/Harris to connect the dots. Trump lied to prop up the stock market while shoveling money (via the Fed and zero interest rates) to big corps - while forcing regular people into the pandemic to die for the 1 percent. Dems are the ones who passed the Cares Act and then the Heroes Act that is still being blocked by the GOP - while regular folks wait on food lines and have lost their healthcare.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. What is so crazy about that? This is not the time for a candidate to

have the luxury of calling all the shots. We are in desperate circumstances...life and death. Worrying that these people with mountains of knowledge aren't consulted ( I guess?) and have to go on TV to push their points.

[Demsrule86]

29. Despite all the noise here...Joe Biden is winning. It is about the President....and the shitty

job he has done...and Sanders wants Biden to take a walk on the left and I say absolutely not. Sanders can't help us win in states we need.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. No one said shitty job. It's about including knowing that the wisdom of

others is needed in a life or death situation.

[Arazi]

12. Yup. And Carville ain't no Bernie bro

[tinrobot]

17. The only policy I care about is the "No more Trump" policy.

This is a one issue election.

[abqtommy]

19. +100 Spot on!

[Le Roi de Pot]

21. Yes talk about Policy ... Because it helped Hillary so well

Have a detailed policy by all means - and you must

But talk about Values. Republicans do that really well.

Talk about your Values that inform your Policies. That is what voters can relate to

[question everything]

22. in 2008 Carville said that the Democrats will now control the government for the next 40 years

[melman]

23. video

Link to tweet

[cwydro]

24. Bernie should exit stage left.

Soonest.

[George II]

25. That's actually NOT what Carville said. Where did he say "Biden should do what Bernie says"?

[BannonsLiver]

26. Ah thanks

I had assumed the OPs characterization was inaccurate. That looks like a correct assumption.

[aidbo]

27. "I think Bernie Sanders is exactly right.."

“.. he’s [Biden] got to focus on these issues.”

[George II]

28. Yes, he said that, but Biden has been doing exactly that in the last week or two. However...

...its not even close to the OP subject line: "James Carville says Biden should do what Bernie says!"

[Demsrule86]

30. Not if he wants to win. Why should Biden take advice from Bernie who lost the

nomination? Sanders should be quiet and so should Carville. Beating Trump is all that matters. Let's not give Trump ammo...Sanders wants Biden to sing the MFA bullshit and that would be a terrible idea.

[Demsrule86]

31. No...that is what Trump wants. Sander did not even come close to winning. I would take no advice

from him and I resent like hell his meddling in the election.

[karynnj]

32. Carville has not been right in election strategy since Bill Clinton won!

Even then, though his war room was trumpeted as important to 1992, remember that people in the Clinton wing also say that Bill Clinton was the best natural politician of his generation - something far more likely to be true. Bill Clinton's win in 1992 was not a landslide - and it was against a president at about 30% approval!

Carville is likely over rated. He certainly was not a huge help to Hillary 2008 or 2016. He was likely negative in 2004 - always considering Kerry as anybody but Bush. a concept that never made sense in a general election, but which diminished our nominee every time he or others spoke that way. Not to mention, there were reports that he passed information given him by someone on the Kerry team on election night to his Republican wife. I suspect he preferred Kerry to lose - leaving 2008 for HRC. I don't remember him in 2000.