On Stephen A. Smith’s SiriusXM political show, strategist James Carville addressed his viral comments about wanting Rep. Ilhan Omar to leave the Democratic Party:

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: James, I want to talk to you about the other day. I saw you going off a little bit about Representative Omar, where you just told – I believe it was her – you just told her, leave the party. I want to know where that came from and when you speak with this level of frustration, can you enlighten us about what exactly it is that you’re talking about and what got you so ticked off when it came to something like that? JAMES CARVILLE: Thank you. And by the way, I met her one time and first of off, she’s a very, attractive, soft-spoken lady. I have a lot of friends in in Minneapolis and people think, a lot of people think well of her, but she started attacking white males and I’m gonna say, wait a minute, let’s stop. Alright. In 2024, 72% of the people that voted were white. All right? That’s just a fact. Of that 72, probably 48% or 48 and a half, were male. So it’s somewhere around, I did the math on the thing, about 33% of the people that are gonna vote are gonna be white males. Well, it’s stupid to attack 33% of the voters. You don’t wanna start there. You know, what you try to do is you start and you build up. And so what I would say to Congresswoman Omar, why don’t you be a Democratic Socialist of America? Do what AOC did, and then if they win, the truth of that is, I share a lot of ideological issues in common with Congressman Omar, but maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We’ll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition. [inaudible] I don’t think she’d do that. But we cannot, we have to get this mentality out that we can win national elections with white people ’cause you can’t. STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: Without white people because you can’t. JAMES CARVILLE: Yeah, right. Without white people, yes, you’re right. That we can somehow or another win an election without white males. It’s just insanity. It’s literally mathematical insanity, cultural insanity. STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: Okay, but James Carville, what about those who will push back on you and say, okay, he’s a Republican, he happens to be the President of the United States, and you certainly were recently going off on him. You went the hell off on him a hell of a lot harder than you went off on representative Omar. Now, I’m saying he has white people, he has white males that love him, what about that? What about people that will look at you and say, come on James? JAMES CARVILLE: Because I’m a white male. I’m different than other people? It is his greatest thing is, is one of the great failures that people have that I find distasteful and say, “a person of color.” Well that means that all non-white people are the same? No, all white people are not the same. All black people are not the same. All Hispanic people are not the same. All right? And I don’t like generalizing about someone’s gender or their race or their sexual preference or anything else. All gay people are not the same. They’re very different personalities. They’re very different values, very different everything. And I just don’t like, and I know when people say it that they’re trying to be inclusive in their language, but I don’t think they stop and think of what they’re telling somebody.

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