Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said Wednesday that with the election coming up, he's "scared to death."
Carville told MSNBC that he is "very, very concerned and very scared" after estimating that Vice President Kamala Harris has less than three weeks to get her message out to voters.
As of Wednesday, there were 27 days until the Nov. 5 vote, but Carville said, "Today is gone. You're going to lose four to the hurricane ... and everything kind of shuts down the Saturday before the election."
"So you're really probably under 20 days that you have to really get a message out."
Carville said Harris' campaign needs "to be sharp. They need to be aggressive. They need to stop answering questions and start asking questions. They're doing all this and sitting down with '60 Minutes' and sitting down with [Stephen] Colbert and sitting down with this."
When asked if he'd like Harris to do more press conferences, Carville said, "I'd like for her to put more things in play, where she's out saying, 'What is [Republican vice presidential nominee] J.D. Vance talking about that [Republican presidential nominee Donald] Trump saved Obamacare? He tried to destroy it at every point.' I would put [former] President [Barack] Obama out to make that; he's only got a 92% approval with Democrats."
Carville also suggested that Harris ask former President Bill Clinton to go on local TV in Michigan and Wisconsin to talk about how tariffs would "destroy the economy" to counter Trump's recent call to implement tariffs on goods made outside the U.S.
Overall, Carville said, "I think [Harris] and the whole campaign needs to be much more aggressive and much less passive than they are."
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