Democratic strategist James Carville went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and those who agree with her, saying “these people are more trouble than they’re worth.”
Carville, speaking Wednesday at an event in London, shot back at comments made by Omar seven years ago to Al Jazeera, in which she said the U.S. “should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”
“Sixty-nine percent of the people going to vote are white,” Carville said in comments highlighted by Mediaite. “Of that, 48 and a half are males. So, I don’t know, my rough math is 33 percent.”
“Let’s go out and piss off 33 percent of the people that vote, and that’s a smart strategy. And the people that agree with her, there are people that actually agree with her. And I think this honestly, I think these people are more trouble than they’re worth,” he added while speaking at “Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit.”
Omar also told Al Jazeera in 2018 that they should be “profiling, monitoring, and creating policies” combating white men’s radicalization, comments that were resurfaced this year by the right-wing Libs of TikTok account.
Vice President Vance also went after Omar’s past comments in a post on the social platform X earlier this week, referencing a Libs of TikTok post.
“This isn’t just sick; it’s actually genocidal language. What a disgrace this person is,” Vance posted in response to Omar’s comments.
Omar later responded to Vance, saying that during “this nearly 8yr old clip, I am referring to the rise of white nationalism in an annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation League that said white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of ‘extremist-related murders.’”
Jacklyn Rogers, a spokesperson for Omar, told The Hill: “It is sad to see Carville parrot MAGA talking points over a clip taken out of context from nearly eight years ago. He is falling for Republican-manufactured faux outrage to partake in a targeted smear campaign to gin up hate against the Congresswoman. The Democratic Party is a big tent party. We should be focused on combating Trump instead of attacking our own.”
Updated at 3:57 p.m. EDT
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