Trump’s New Blunder Proves He’s A Loser: Carville | The Daily Beast Podcast
James Carville returns to the Daily Beast Podcast with a blunt prediction for the midterms, arguing that Donald Trump’s grip on Republicans could become their biggest liability as voters head to the polls. Carville weighs in on Republicans trying to distance themselves from Trump, the spectacle and price tag of Trump’s upcoming Dallas convention, and why he believes Democrats should cover it relentlessly. He also delivers a stark warning about Pete Hegseth’s impact on the military, argues that Trump could walk away from the presidency when Republicans turn on him, and makes a striking prediction about who will control the Senate in January.
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00:00 – Trumpapalooza Scam
04:55 – Republicans Try To Distance Themselves From Trump
09:20 – Can Trump Turn Around His Polling?
13:45 – Why Democrats Should Cover Trump’s Dallas Convention
18:11 – Carville Predicts Trump Will Quit
22:36 – Why Carville Is Alarmed By Hegseth
27:01 – The USS Lincoln’s Deployment
31:30 – Trump’s $400 Million Campaign War Chest
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📖 Title: Trump’s New Blunder Proves He’s A Loser: Carville
👂 Podcast: The Daily Beast Podcast
📺 Episode: 761
🎧 Format: Full Podcast
📅 Date: September 2, 2026
👨💼 Guest: James Carville
🎙️ Host: Sarah Ewall-Wice
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@EvanDickerson-ub5ge
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Great job Sarah! Loved the interview.
@corduroy99
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
21:22 EXACTLY!!!!! Thank you James! Listen up folks, listen up! Old man James telling it like it is!
@GB-us6ow
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
You can ask, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and JFK if real democratic strategy advisors don't use real bullets 😂 you can ask Charley and our great President if the real Democrats strategists don't use real bullets 😂 this loser is the help, an alcoholic jealous of life getting short 😢 uses the same hat quesadilla looking at all times. 😮
@emmet_harris
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
I'm sorry James, I love 99.9% of every political insight you utter, but you're wrong about 47 walking away. There are 4 reasons he cannot walk away. 1) The Roy Cohn mantra of always attack is so part of his emotional makeup that he will always instinctively believe his best advantage is to be found wielding the power he can have through incessantly controlling the media and the narrative. 2) his self obsession cannot abide the notion that he would not be the centre of everything – and he can golf and visit Mar a Lago while being PotUS 3) the chances for grift and outright self-enriching corruption radically diminish if he stops being PotUS. 4) same as 3 but re. the shielding advantages he gets for himself and his family businesses by continuing to be PotUS. Apart from 2 above, the above 4 all have a solid game theory bases.
Bottom line – he won't willingly leave.
@GB-us6ow
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
You call our great President a loser , but you are the only one crying 😭 hating and jealous. you don't fool me. 😂
@JIMJ-In-MD
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Can we stop wasting precious air time with Carville? Frankly, he is irrelevant and I'd rather listen to folks who are truly in the know. His predication history has been wrong for years. There are better subjects out there to interview. We don't need to hear from the fossils of the Democratic party.
@rlvarady
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
26:40 the only reason those seamen will return to ship is to get back home
@mmwrightness
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
TRUMP A LOSER hahahhahahha
@farkleberry471
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Look at the race in South Carolina! Surprised that Carville didn't mention this. Enough with Natalie Harp already–I hope that the DNB stops being so gossipy—it's really detracts from their coverage.
@JoannaFabulation
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Well done Sarah!,💛💛 try & not allow any anxiety to cause you to appear a little disrespectful at times . .but great interview !!!❤❤
@PhantomEngineer
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Carville is always wrong. No, do not cover the R convention. Every second allowing their bogus messages to spew spreads their bogus messages. Even if you disagree or ridicule their messages, you are still spreading their messages whenever you display or repeat them. When will you ever get it? Did you not learn anything from the 2016 campaign? Carville has zero credibility, he predicted Kamala would win and he's made a million failed predictions before and since then. Put him out to pasture already.
@Jojo12-h2e
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
I’d say, and I’m in Iowa, there’s a real shot of the Democrats winning but there’s still an ember burning for the MAGA BS. oh they quiet. the flags and hats and signs are gone. they know they look dumb. but they still think liberals are trying to turn us all transgender. there’s also a deep seated resentment for liberals and that’s what worries me. It’s not that they like Trump. They just will never associate with the liberals because they have been brainwashed to believe that means they think women are men or whatever. it’s really effective. and the media does not help. it’s all garbage. and the candidates are not exactly remarkable. and oh by the way Rob Sand. it would be great if he wasn’t also part of a family who owns a billion dollar agriculture company while these exact companies are not helping Iowans. with cancer rates and economy etc. So Democrats the game has changed get serious or get out.
@lynnebehrens-hanna4149
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
💙💙💙
@Jojo12-h2e
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Gop is messing with the mail already. they are going to overthrow the election
@Jojo12-h2e
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
the republicans claim people don’t make up their minds until two weeks before the election and dems have topped out. I hope they are wrong but dems need to pay attention
@glindathegoodwitch3385
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
I’m skipping today’s broadcast, and every day you have James “scratch your head” Carville on as your guest. Please avoid him in the future. Sadly, he has outlived his time. P.s. love Rothkopf!
@SandraSundread-s8k
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
The fact that ConOld changed planes without telling the press and others on board and choosing Hegseth and Miss Print to join hiding on the food container because there was a threat is traitorous and cowardly. To then hop back on board after landing in Europe, to point a finger at the press and say, " if I go down, you go down" takes the biscuit.
He is a bad sad loser, the pedophile protections is the only reason why he will spend money to try and win the midterms. He can try and cheat, but the people of the U.S. have the power, and enough is enough.
@BlackDotDot
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Jesus Carville is so disconnected from the base 🙄
@Susiei-c6p
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Good job Sarah
@jamilafay
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
These questions were bangers!
🔥🔥🔥
@Nunsuch5952
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Trump wants to loose… negotiate a pardon with Vance and leave with his billions and blame Vance for Iran after it not ending.
@RelaxedPuppy
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
He's not going to quit. He's going to burn it all down.
@mariwittenbreer6865
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
For Progressives like me living in states up near the Canadian border I need to listen to wise commentators like Carville. He knows the south and we are a big tent party.
@AlsAnimatedAudiobooks
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Good show. Thank you James and his interviewer. Well done!
@JoeB1207
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Yes, the clock remains on 2020
@laurentdrozin812
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Concerning the military, don't fool yourselves. Even if the high ranking are not as a rule MAGA, there is a large portion of the rank and file that are. Hegseth knows this. He will have to problem replacing the traditional leadership with committed MAGA faithful. The resulting new force will most likely not be the best in the world, but good enough to crush any dissent in the US.
@EP-ch2wu
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Retire this gentleman…nobody is watching
@kflivingston8483
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
I’m sick of seeing this old man on podcasts please send Carville back to the retirement community
@zedudli
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Yes please ask the opinion of people whose predictions are never wrong! Like this guy! 😂
@NanaUBzns
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
They aren’t passing anything they’re just tearing it all down-everything! The buildings, our national parks, the wild Mustangs, the deaths of innocent civilians, and people in boats, the norms, science, the military, our relations with our allies, the culture of this country, hope and optimism…tearing it all down.
@j.d.4697
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
What use is any of this when the population is too dim to get it?
@JimJardineKinnaird
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Interesting!
@Erasmustherobot
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Neo lib bullshit and telling tall tales
@shelleyshelinda
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Good job! (Think about a different hairstyle more complimentary to your beautiful features. )
@Erasmustherobot
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Do the opposite.
@JimJardineKinnaird
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
The Harp is a stalker.
@TechneMoira
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
What a bloody irritating idiotic-sounding person, that Carville. I'm a Democrat at heart, but this man's language is so off-putting, that it hardly seems like a pro-Democrat plugging. No, sorry, not enjoyable, neither informative. A true time-wasting interview and clickbait
@Victorthespy008
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
“Always look at the bright side of life” 🎶 🎵
@benlovestransport
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Enjoyed the interview and good arguments made – shame about the foul language
@DenfordAshmeade
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Carville knows his shit .
@DashingDonal-og2gb
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
One should not be so confident in a Democratic blue wave, because as you speak, the Postal Service is implementing extraordinary methods to disallow hundreds of thousands of legitimate ballots with its new "housekeeping procedures", allowed by the MAGA Supreme Court. If the Democrats don't wake up and stop the latest attempt at destroying the election process, it will be a travesty of justice.
BTW, some of the comments on James Carville appear to come from Democratic impersonators – ie MAGA faithful.
@bookiester
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Retirement is still a thing, right?
@user-hx5dd8yv9h
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Now let’s get rid of old farts in Democratic Party with tired old ideas and compliance with Trump billionaires
@oldasrocks9121
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
This guy is so embittered it's hard to listen to.
@ladyreverb9175
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
I can’t stand Carville. He hates progressives, so I’ll be skipping this video.
@RabidWombat-g1z
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Mr. Carville’s “NPR receiver” comment was spot on. Largely irrelevant and sometimes difficult to listen to, he does make blunt, accurate observations.
@RabidWombat-g1z
September 3, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Ms. Ewall-Wice did a pretty good job. Good lighting, blouse, background, kept her emotions to a minimum, and didn’t jabber too much like she tends to. She spoke and then let the guest talk. Good job.