after confidently predicting a kamla Harris Victory Democratic strategist James Carville is now admitting that his crystal ball was wrong and it's hard not to put a smile on your face with this one conceding that he failed to listen to his own famous advice it's the economy stupid it was that and a whole lot of other things Carville also proposed that the Democratic party needs to go big and go populist after losing the economic narrative but here's another piece of advice democrats should consider stop nominating terrible candidates just today kamla Harris seemed to forget the words
of the Pledge of Allegiance watch this please join me in pledging allegiance to our flag I pledge allegiance to the United of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all oops here now with reaction Hoover instit institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hansen the Federalist correspondent bana Lyman and Democratic pollster Doug shown uh Doug thanks thank you all for joining us but Doug come on to mess up the pledge of allegiance that for the vice president of the United States that should
be an easy one right well it just unders scores how really unsuited she was for national office and certainly not to be the president of the United States and as for James Carville he was so certain the Democrats were going to win everybody who was against KLA Harris was either wrong or stupid or racist or out of touch whatever I I think we realize that we are a divided country the issues is he's now acknowledged the economy the southern border crime were all working for the Republicans and ultimately as you've suggested in your other guests
have suggested the victory was clear and I think my party needs to do a real rethink of where it stands cooperate with Trump where they agree where the American people want cooperation and seek to carve out a new and arguably different identity for the Democratic party like the one we had in the Clinton years which was Centrist fiscally conservative tough on crime and strong on the southern border that Democratic party can win this Democratic party just lost now they lost in a big way Briana uh what's your take on it I mean KLA Harris was
a horrific candidate I mean she came in I think sixth place in California behind Andrew Yang dropped out before they even got to the first vote for goodness sake I mean she was the cats meow at the beginning but but by the time people actually listened to her they were ready to get rid of her but somehow she became the vice president and became the nominee yeah and that's the story for the entire Democratic party you know James Carville a few months ago he correctly pointed out that Democrats went from it's the economy stupid to
you're stupid if you think this economy is bad and he was right Democrats including KLA Harris have spent months telling us that this is one of the greatest economies we've ever had they use metrics that most Americans do not use like GDP and then they also went and told us that yeah things are bad but we're not in a recession cuz we're redefining a recession Carville called that out and he was right and yet now he does a 180 and he says that Americans didn't want to settle for soaring GDP and subsiding inflation that is
why the Democrats lost soaring GDP is not a metric average Americans use and yeah inflation may be subsiding from record highs created by the Biden Harris Administration Americans remember inflation was still lower When Donald Trump left office compared to today and until people like James Carville KLA Harris and the party gets it they will continue to lose yeah come on Brianna I mean my wife Julie and I always sit around the kitchen table talking about the GDP and how that affects the price of eggs I mean that that's just come on that's just a common
occurrence but Victor Davis an and you're one of our favorites I mean it just seemed that the basic premise and thesis of these candidates and their party as a whole never rang true to the American people no it didn't I think James Carville knew she was going to lose and he felt that he was du to to build momentum by saying she was a sure winner and trash Trump but he's not stupid Doug made a good point from that those Wilderness years of 20 years from 1972 starting with the movern left-wing disaster and the landslide
Nixon Victory all the way to Bill Clinton's victory in '92 that was 20 years where they only had four years of carteris Clinton came in and rejected Carter ISM you go back and look at the 1996 convention platform of the Democrats Jason it's physical sobriety balanced budget Clos the Border tough on crime no exemptions for youthful offenders uh they even use the word uh God's country when the God's Nation when they talk about uh green policies and conservation it was a very moderate physical fiscal sobriety uh and it was a winning agenda and they renounced
that and they uh rejected it and they went into first a progressive Obama per period and then this French Revolutionary jackob and crazy period and they destroyed the party car caral knows that and he knows what he has to do he's got to go back to go back to the 1996 platform Nancy Pelosi and people like Chuck Schumer were giving speeches about why they had to close the border and it was to Pro protect union wages and the Integrity of citizenship that seems surreal today it just almost seem like impossible to even imagine the Democratic
party of that nature yeah and adding on to that Doug it just seems like the Democrats are void of policy ideas what new creative policy idea did they bring to the table I can't even name anything Jason there wasn't anything and look I appreciate what Victor Davis Hansen said as one of the architects of the 96 convention and platform along with my partner Mark Penn I think that's where the Democratic party has to go it's not new ideas it's the right values and the right policies that reflect what the American people and working people want
if we go back to that as Victor said we as Democrats can win and if we don't we'll be in the wilderness another 20 years you have to have great candidates and you got to have a great platform and nobody's done it better than Donald Trump it's why he's overwhelmingly the president of the United States Democrats have not learned those lessons hey Sean Hannity here hey click here to subscribe to Fox News YouTube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else