James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist known as the \u201cRagin\u2019 Cajun,\u201d said in an interview published Saturday that he does not think President Biden will be on the ticket come Election Day. But hours after the story was published, the Biden campaign sent a fundraising message invoking his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cHi, it\u2019s James Carville. I need you and Democrats everywhere to make a contribution to the Biden-Harris campaign ASAP. Help them defeat Donald Trump,\u201d the text said.<\/p>\n
Carville told The Post that he \u201cnever signed off on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hours before the campaign text was sent, Carville was quoted in an Axios story examining who would play a role in influencing whether Biden would step aside in the wake of his halting presidential debate performance.<\/p>\n
Carville, who was the lead strategist for Bill Clinton\u2019s 1992 presidential campaign, told the outlet he thinks Biden will no longer be in the running by the time Election Day comes around, paraphrasing a famous quote by the late economist Herb Stein, saying, \u201cThat which can\u2019t continue \u2026 won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lauren Hitt, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement that Carville\u2019s team \u201csigned off on a robust fundraising package for our campaign including today\u2019s message, and we\u2019re grateful for everything he does to ensure that Joe Biden is re-elected to a second term.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Carville told The Post that he checked with his team, and they had no knowledge of it. The fundraising text, he said, \u201cdidn\u2019t bother me as much as the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf all the glitches they made, I guess this is pretty minor,\u201d he said. But he added: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of weird to see your name go out to half a million people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later Saturday night, the Biden campaign provided an email showing a representative for Carville approved the fundraising missives earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Still, Carville said he would vote for Biden if he\u2019s still running against former president Donald Trump on Election Day.<\/p>\n
Since Thursday night, the Biden campaign\u2019s fundraising texts have focused on the president\u2019s debate performance \u2014 mirroring language Biden used onstage and asking supporters to chip in \u201cto defeat Trump again.\u201d<\/p>\n
A text on Friday also invoked rhetoric Biden used that day at a rally in Raleigh, N.C., acknowledging his debate performance the previous night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019m not a young man. I don\u2019t walk as easily as I used to. I don\u2019t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don\u2019t debate as well as I used to,\u201d the text said. \u201cI also know how to tell the truth \u2026 I know how to get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the debate, Biden has been on a fundraising swing.<\/p>\n
After his rally in Raleigh on Friday, Biden traveled to New York and participated in a fundraiser in Manhattan with stars such as Billy Porter and Elton John. His Saturday schedule includes two campaign receptions in East Hampton and another in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
James Carville, the longtime Democratic strategist known as the \u201cRagin\u2019 Cajun,\u201d said in an interview published Saturday that he does not think President Biden will be on the ticket come Election Day. But hours after the story was published, the Biden campaign sent a fundraising message invoking his name. \u201cHi, it\u2019s James Carville. I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}