CNN’s token MAGA voice Scott Jennings had some harsh words for James Carville Monday after the longtime Democratic consultant said that President Donald Trump’s White House would “collapse” over the next few weeks.
Carville claimed that Democrats worrying about the current administration need not fret in an interview with Mediaite’s Dan Abrams over the weekend.
“Democrats need to play possum,” Carville told Abrams, adding “this whole thing is collapsing” due to fissures that have opened up in Trump’s inner circle.
For these remarks Jennings, 47, who worked in the George W. Bush administration and is known to advise Sen. Mitch McConnell, bashed Carville, claiming “The Ragin' Cajun is at it again.”
Jennings’ systematic attack began with Carville’s prediction that Kamala Harris would win the 2024 election, a call the 80-year-old made in an October column in the New York Times. According to the conservative pundit, Carville, who was the lead strategist on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, is still “riding that high” and has since become “a laughing stock.”
Attempting to discredit the Democratic Party strategist, Jennings blamed Carville’s failure to accurately predict the election results on his own “emotional feelings”—adding that the “doomed” Harris clearly had no chance at winning “with the anchor of Joe Biden around her neck.”
“Pro tip, James – the next time you are feeling emotive scream into a pillow, instead of running to the laptop,” Jennings wrote in the Daily Mail.
Jennings adamantly defended Trump, claiming that Carville’s prediction that his administration is bound to collapse in “less that 30 days,” is both untrue and unwarranted.
“Mind you, Trump has been in office for a little over a month and is trying to clean up a mess four years in the making thanks to a disastrous Biden regime,” he wrote.
To build his case, Jennings cited a single poll that shows a 49 percent approval rating for Trump, conducted by RealClearPolitics.
He added, according to another poll via CBS, that about six in 10 American’s approve of Trump mass deportation plan, 54 percent support his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict and that most American applaud Elon Musk “taking a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy.”
A Thursday CNN poll however, indicates that 52 percent of Americans also disapprove of Trump’s presidency. The poll from last week also indicates that 52 percent of Americans believe that the president has overstepped his presidential power, record low numbers for this point in a presidency.
Jennings added that Trump “may be in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize if he can negotiate the end of the war between Ukraine and Russia”—despite the fact that Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022 and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.”
Jennings also argued that on the off chance Carville is right, “One of President Trump’s saving graces is that he is forever blessed with the dumbest and most off-putting political enemies imaginable.”
Jennings concluded: “Democrats may as well ‘lay back.’ At this point, there’s not much else they can do – except, perhaps, get on board.”
