By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-23 20:38:45 | Updated at 2025-01-23 23:19:51
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Democratic strategist James Carville gave a brutal assessment of President Joe Biden's political future.
He doesn't have one.
Carville and his co-host Al Hunt discussed on their Politics War Room podcast that was released Thursday the preemptive pardons that Biden gave to his siblings and their spouses.
Hunt expressed that he was 'really upset that Biden did that.'
Carville took the criticism a step further.
'This is the kind of truth of where we are,' the Ragin' Cajun said. 'What he's done to himself is, no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. OK? Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there.'
'And that's not because we're bad people or we're mean people, it was all his doing, all his doing, this entire thing,' Carville continued.
Carville has maintained that Biden, 82, put the Democrats in a terrible position by thinking he could run again - despite polling showing Americans having major concerns about the president's advanced age - and then dropping out of the race in late July.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville gave a brutal assessment about President Joe Biden's political future in a podcast episode released Thursday
Former President Joe Biden waves as he and former first lady Jill Biden depart Joint Base Andrews after President Donald Trump is sworn-in on Monday
Carville explained earlier in the podcast that 'we lost the election because ... we played the Super Bowl with our 9th best quarterback.'
'And with our 9th best quarterback, with no time to prepare a campaign, without even addressing the central issue that American people are concerned about,' Carville said. 'We came within a point and a half.'
Carville previously wrote in an op-ed that the central issue that doomed the Democratic ticket was their handling of the economy.
During Thursday's podcast episode Carville took issue with Biden reportedly saying that he believed he would have beaten Trump had he stayed in the race instead of being replaced by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
'In this kind of petty back and forth, "I would have beat Trump,"' Carville said, quoting BIden. 'No one f***ing believes that at all.'
'Just look, guy, you had a noble career, your last act was terrible, just get out of the way, the party's moving on, I mean they're really moving on,' he said. 'It's very sad but it's just where we are but he created this himself.'
Hunt agreed.
'Joe Biden really has no role to play in the national dialogue,' he said.
'What he's done to himself is, no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. OK? Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there,' Carville advised
'If he tries to play a role it will be a negative role,' Carville replied.
Carville called Biden's fall 'unbelievably stunning.'
'It's one of the most tragic stories in American politics in my lifetime,' Carville noted. 'The central character is actually a good guy - who did it to himself.'
On Monday the Bidens departed for California where they'll start their lives as private citizens on a vacation.
Hunter Biden and his family live there, as does granddaughter Naomi Biden, who gave birth to the couple's first great-grandson earlier this month.
