CARVILLE: ‘WOKE’ DEMS RISKING SUPPORT
Veteran strategist says the party is too focused on ‘pronouns’ and ‘veganism’
Democrats fixated on “veganism” and “pronouns” are putting the party at risk of losing control of DC hobbling President Biden in the second half of his term, political strategist James Carville told the Herald.
The Roe v. Wade leak, he added, will be a footnote after the full U.S. Supreme Court decision hits.
“Once the full opinion comes in four to six weeks, the leak will be immaterial,” Carville said. “For now, it gives Republicans a talking point.
“It’s a high probability the leak came from the conservative side to shore (Justice Brett) Kavanaugh up,” he said, adding Democrats are missing the point by letting the “woke progressives talk about veganism and pronouns.”
Carville, a longtime straight-talking Democratic strategist, shared the same warning on cable TV warning Democrats are failing to motivate voters when the Roe ruling will whip them up.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have jumped on the leak using it to appeal for more donations.
“I’ve never been so angry in my life,” Pelosi said as she sought donations of $5 to $100 in a Monday email alert.
“Ted Cruz called a Roe v.
Wade repeal a ‘massive victory’,” she said.
Warren, seeking more email followers off the Roe leak, said she’ll try to pack the Supreme Court and more.
“When the Supreme Court has gotten this far out of sync with American values, then it’s time to expand the Supreme Court and pull it back toward the mainstream,” Warren wrote. “It isn’t radical. It’s what we must do to rein in a Court that Republicans packed and that clearly doesn’t feel limited by the rule of law.”
Democrats raised $12 million in the day after news broke about the draft opinion, according to ActBlue, which processes online donations for Democratic-aligned candidates and groups, the Associated Press reported.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked Monday when Biden will make a formal comment about the Roe leak. She defended his comments but agreed it was only in passing. She did speak about contraception.
“Some states have taken steps to protect women’s rights,” she said. “I’ll expect you’ll continue to have (Biden) speak out it.”
Psaki said she “expects” to speak to “protection of fundamental women’s rights” — but nothing official until the decision is out final and in full.
The White House also plans to stage events with advocates, health care providers and state officials to highlight the issue, the AP added, but those plans are not final.