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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville continued his criticisms of former Vice President Kamala Harris following her blowout loss in November to now-President Donald Trump and appeared to indicate that she has no shot at winning her party’s nomination in 2028.

In an interview with PBS that aired late last week, Carville compared Harris to a “seventh-string quarterback” starting in the Super Bowl and chided the process by which she was essentially anointed to replace now-former President Joe Biden after he made the decision to drop his reelection bid after performing poorly in a June debate with Trump.

“We ran a presidential election, if we were playing a Super Bowl, we started our 7th string quarterback. That’s what happened, okay?” said Carville on the show “Firing Line.” “You can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem.”

He also speculated that Democratic voters would have been happier to have a candidate who could “actually complete a sentence” — though Harris did wind up getting about 75 million votes to Trump’s 77 million.

“Now, if you would’ve put the staggering talent that exists in today’s Democratic Party — you heard what I said? The staggering talent that exists in today’s Democratic Party. If people would have seen that, they’d have gone, ‘I didn’t know they had people like that, that can actually complete a sentence, okay? That actually know how to frame a message, that actually have a sense of accomplishment of doing something,'” the veteran strategist, who rose to fame helping elect Bill Clinton to two terms, added .

“If we would have excited people, and we would have had people from the middle of the country, we would have had people from the coast, we’d have been diverse, we’d have been, and then when you do that, that’s how people get involved in politics. We have not had an inspirational presidential candidate since 2012. That’s a problem,” he continued.

On the Republican side, GOP strategist Mike Murphy added, “When you have a primary and a contest like the playoff, you get a big winner, and that credentials the nominee. They earn it. James suggested earlier, and I was 1,000% for this, we can have a short primary here instead of anointing somebody.”

Harris faced intense criticism during her campaign for struggling with unscripted conversations, often leading to disjointed and unclear responses from the former vice president.

But that said, Carville wrote a column that was published by The New York Times in the weeks leading up to the November election titled : “Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.”

He shredded Trump as a “repeat electoral loser” while claiming, “This time will be no different,” and heaping praise on Harris. But not only did Trump win a commanding number of electoral votes, he became the first Republican nominee in nearly two decades to also win a majority of the popular vote.

“On the other side, in just three months Ms. Harris has assembled a unified and electrified coalition. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Liz and Dick Cheney, it is the broadest we have seen in modern political history… and if the bigger coalition turns out with equal enthusiasm, it will be lights out for Mr. Trump,” Carville wrote — though it was actually Trump who broadened the GOP coalition with is victory.

Carville’s column also criticized “sweaty Democratic operatives” who were doubting Harris’ chances against Trump in the weeks leading up to the election.

“More than in any other election in my lifetime, I’ve been consistently asked by people of all stripes and creeds: ‘Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?’ This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic operatives who all too often love to run to the press with their woes,” Carville wrote.