Dem strategist James Carville says Biden needs to 'get out of the way' as the party is 'moving on'

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 January 25, 2025

When former President Joe Biden's term ended this week, so too did his decades-long political career, and some of his former allies are now suggesting it would be best for everybody if he goes away and disappears.

That was the message from Democratic strategist James Carville, who asserted in a recent podcast episode that "no one wants to hear from" Biden anymore, Fox News reported.

The longtime advisor for Democrats said Biden needs to go back to Delaware and "just get out of the way" because any future role he might attempt to play for the party would be a "negative" one as the party is "moving on" from his era.

"No one wants to hear from this guy anymore, OK?"

On Wednesday's episode of "Politics War Room," co-hosts James Carville and Al Hunt first fumed about President Donald Trump's inauguration and subsequent "flooding the zone" with numerous consequential executive actions that have completely "dominated" Washington D.C. and the political arena.

The conversation eventually shifted to the controversial pardons issued by both Trump and President Biden -- Jan. 6 defendants for Trump; family members and former officials for Biden -- all of which were sharply opposed by Carville and Hunt, which led to Carville revealing how he really felt about the elderly ex-president.

"Well, this is the kind of truth of where we are. We all know Biden. Actually, you and I know him personally," Carville said. "And I think it’s fair to say that we’re long-time, at some level, admirers of Joe Biden. What he’s done to himself is, no one wants to hear from this guy anymore, OK?"

"Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there," he continued with a reference to Biden's beachfront vacation home in Delaware. "And that’s not because we’re bad people, or we’re mean people. It was all his doing, all his doing, this entire thing."

"No one f--king believes" that Biden would have beat Trump again

Carville went on to call out former President Biden for his laughable recent claim that he would have defeated President Trump if he'd stayed in the race instead of dropping out over the summer and being replaced by former Vice President Kamala Harris, who Trump decisively beat, as well as the emergent feud between the Biden family and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who played an integral role in compelling Biden's exit from the race.

"And this kind of petty back and forth, 'Oh, I would have beat Trump,' and no one f--king believes that at all," Carville said. "Then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi."

"Look, guy, you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way," he continued. "The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on. It is very sad, but that is just where we are. He created this himself. He had nobody to blame but himself."

Carville later suggested that Biden was "one of the most tragic stories of American politics in my lifetime" but insisted that if he continued to "try to play a role" in national party politics it would only "be a negative one."

Biden would've been the "toast of Washington" if he'd dropped out earlier

Fox News noted that this is far from the first time that Carville has been critical of former President Biden's failures and regrettable decision to remain in the race as long as he did before dropping out with little time for the Democratic Party to do anything other than rally behind VP Harris' flawed and rushed last-minute candidacy.

"But the different scenario would be, if he would have -- in September of 2023 or August -- said that he wasn’t going to run … we would have won this election," the Democratic strategist mused in December. "And it wouldn’t have been that close, because we’d have had so many freaking talented people that were running."

"And he would be sitting here right now, getting ready to leave on a high note," Carville added at that time. "There would be naming commissions to figure out what we're going to name after him. He would be the toast of Washington."

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