James Carville — the Ragin' Cajun himself, the guy who put Bill Clinton in the White House — is now publicly begging Texas Democrats to run away from their own candidate's gender lunacy. Democratic strategist Carville warned that Texas Senate candidate James Talarico needs to answer for his embrace of "six-gender politics" before it buries the party's chances in the Lone Star State.
When the guy who invented modern Democratic war-room strategy is telling his own team they've lost the plot on basic biology, maybe it's time to listen.
Carville and co-host Al Hunt didn't mince words about the problem. Hunt put it bluntly: "Yeah, but he said there's six genders. Well, I don't know whether he said it or not, but if he said it, god damn it, he better walk it back." That's not Fox News talking. That's a lifelong Democrat saying the quiet part out loud — your cultural positions are insane and voters know it.
Carville himself acknowledged that despite everything breaking right for Democrats in the Texas Senate race, they've barely managed to make it competitive. "Everything that you would say in a lab had to happen to get this thing to the point that here we are, almost post-Memorial Day, saying it's a 50/50 race," Carville said. Translation: they had every advantage imaginable and still can't close the deal.
Gee, wonder why.
Talarico, for his part, knows he's got a problem. The Texas Democratic Senate candidate admitted as much, saying, "There are some statements that I have made that I certainly regret." But rather than own it, he immediately pivoted to blaming his opponent. "Ken Paxton is intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption," Talarico added.
Notice he didn't deny saying it. He called his own comments "cringey." That's Democrat-speak for "I absolutely said this insane thing and now I'm praying you forget about it."
Here's the beautiful part. Carville told Hunt that "Talarico has to be smart, and he has to be aggressive" — as if the problem is messaging strategy and not the fact that the candidate genuinely believes in six genders. You can't put lipstick on that pig, James. The voters of Texas aren't buying what the progressive faculty lounge is selling, no matter how aggressively you package it.
And let's talk about who Talarico is up against. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just steamrolled through his own primary and is battle-tested in ways Talarico can only dream about. Paxton doesn't need to manufacture attacks. He just has to press play on Talarico's own words and let the man defeat himself.
The last Democrat to win a Senate seat in Texas was Lloyd Bentsen. That should tell you everything about how delusional the party's Texas dreams really are. They haven't won statewide in decades, and their answer is to run a guy who thinks there are six genders? Brilliant strategy.
As reported by American Wire News, even Hunt conceded that the attacks on Talarico's gender comments have teeth. "Some of it is true," Hunt admitted. "And you gotta deal with it." That might be the most honest thing a Democrat has said all year.
This is what happens when a party lets its San Francisco wing write the platform for a Texas election. Carville sees the trainwreck coming. Hunt sees the trainwreck coming. Talarico himself apparently sees the trainwreck coming — he just thinks calling his own beliefs "cringey" will make voters forget he holds them.
It won't. Texas isn't Portland. And six genders isn't a platform — it's a punchline.
