{"id":3223150,"date":"2025-12-02T21:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/?p=3223150"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:32:44","slug":"carville-says-mamdani-victory-not-bellwether-warns-nyc-is-not-the-center-of-the-political-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/carville-says-mamdani-victory-not-bellwether-warns-nyc-is-not-the-center-of-the-political-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Carville says Mamdani victory not bellwether, warns NYC is \u2018not the center of the political universe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" class=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville cautioned Democrats against seeing New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory as a bellwether for the country during a new podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">While the Democratic Party has been in flux after then-Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 defeat by President Donald Trump, recent victories by both moderate and progressive candidates have given mixed messages about the party\u2019s path of victory moving forward. During an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ac-jk6BnTFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Daily Beast Podcast<\/a> published Monday, Carville was asked by host Joanna Coles about the future of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let\u2019s do a little unwrapping here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The mayor of New York has never been a figure in national politics. Let me repeat, the mayor of New York, who&#8217;s never been much of a figure in national politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carville, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/james-carville-warns-mamdani-keep-globalize-intifada-phrase-out-your-mouth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized Mamdani in the past,<\/a> cited multiple major changes happening in politics, mocking that by contrast, the view of many people is, &#8220;But we must talk about Mamdani, because New York is the center of the universe, that nothing else exists in the United States but New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-warns-fellow-democrats-mamdanis-impact-says-whole-party-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BILL MAHER WARNS FELLOW DEMOCRATS OF MAMDANI\u2019S IMPACT, SAYS THE \u2018WHOLE\u2019 PARTY IS ON THE BALLOT<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" 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https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1862\/1046\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/720\/405\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1440\/810\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20343%20192'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png\" alt=\"James Carville speaks\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/picture><noscript><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/343\/192\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/686\/384\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/672\/378\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1344\/756\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"378\" width=\"672\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/931\/523\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1862\/1046\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/720\/405\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1440\/810\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20675'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png\" alt=\"James Carville speaks\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/james-carville-speaks-at-event.png\" alt=\"James Carville speaks\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" readability=\"7.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><span>James Carville has criticized Zohran Mamdani before, but has also said that the Democratic Party needs to embrace a more economically populist message going forward.<\/span> <span>(Jason Kempin\/Getty Images for Politicon)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He went on to argue, &#8220;in fact, the city of New York is not a very \u2014 it&#8217;s a big player in finance.&nbsp;It&#8217;s a big player in theater, it&#8217;s a big player in advertising, it\u2019s a big player in creativity. It is one of my favorite cities in the entire world. In fact, I&#8217;m going there tomorrow, I can&#8217;t wait. But you&#8217;re not the center of the political universe. You&#8217;re just not. You&#8217;re not even a swing place. If it wouldn&#8217;t be for your money, politicians wouldn&#8217;t much care about you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m deducting from that you\u2019re saying the future of the Democratic Party is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/radical-far-left-priorities-have-alienated-democrat-voters-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going to be moderate?<\/a>&#8221; Cole asked.<\/p>\n<p>Carville argued that right now, the Democratic Party does not have a message so much as it has an argument that Republicans must be stopped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way that you&#8217;re going to have a message is Democratic voters are going to pick their presidential nominee,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/charlamagne-tells-van-jones-shut-f-up-forever-after-calling-mamdanis-victory-speech-divisive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CHARLAMAGNE TELLS VAN JONES TO &#8216;SHUT THE F UP FOREVER&#8217; AFTER CALLING MAMDANI\u2019S VICTORY SPEECH DIVISIVE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/343\/192\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/686\/384\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/672\/378\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1344\/756\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"378\" width=\"672\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/931\/523\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1862\/1046\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/720\/405\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1440\/810\/james-carville-at-dnc.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20675'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/james-carville-at-dnc.png\" alt=\"James Carville at DNC\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/james-carville-at-dnc.png\" alt=\"James Carville at DNC\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><span>Political commentator James Carville.<\/span> <span>(Victor J. Blue\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Now, what we do know for a fact that in this century \u2014 now I may be 72, but maybe not even then, but the Democrats never picked the most left candidate. Ever,&#8221; Carville said, mocking the idea that Mamdani represents where Democrats across the country are politically. &#8220;Right now that gets in the way of the storyline, right? Because New York has to be central to the story, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Cole continued to share data about the turnout for Mamdani, arguing the election of a democratic socialist was significant, Carville replied, &#8220;That\u2019s great, that\u2019s great, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>. It\u2019s not anything else.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I tell you that you\u2019re not the center of the political universe in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well that\u2019s very disappointing to me,&#8221; the host joked. &#8220;This is a brutal Monday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/343\/192\/split-photo-carville-and-mamdani.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/686\/384\/split-photo-carville-and-mamdani.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" 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\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><span>Democratic strategist James Carville and New York City&#8217;s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.<\/span> <span>(Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for SCAD; Angela Weiss\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Alexander Hall is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Alexander.hall@fox.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!<br \/>\n Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville cautioned Democrats against seeing New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory as a bellwether for the country during a new podcast appearance.While the Democratic Party has been in flux after then-Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 defeat by President Donald Trump, recent victories by both moderate and progressive candidates have given mixed messages about the party\u2019s path of victory moving forward. During an appearance on The Daily Beast Podcast published Monday, Carville was asked by host Joanna Coles about the future of the Democratic Party.&#8221;So let\u2019s do a little unwrapping here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The mayor of New York has never been a figure in national politics. Let me repeat, the mayor of New York, who&#8217;s never been much of a figure in national politics.&#8221;Carville, who has criticized Mamdani in the past, cited multiple major changes happening in politics, mocking that by contrast, the view of many people is, &#8220;But we must talk about Mamdani, because New York is the center of the universe, that nothing else exists in the United States but New York.&#8221;BILL MAHER WARNS FELLOW DEMOCRATS OF MAMDANI\u2019S IMPACT, SAYS THE \u2018WHOLE\u2019 PARTY IS ON THE BALLOT James Carville has criticized Zohran Mamdani before, but has also said that the Democratic Party needs to embrace a more economically populist message going forward. (Jason Kempin\/Getty Images for Politicon)He went on to argue, &#8220;in fact, the city of New York is not a very \u2014 it&#8217;s a big player in finance.\u00a0It&#8217;s a big player in theater, it&#8217;s a big player in advertising, it\u2019s a big player in creativity. It is one of my favorite cities in the entire world. In fact, I&#8217;m going there tomorrow, I can&#8217;t wait. But you&#8217;re not the center of the political universe. You&#8217;re just not. You&#8217;re not even a swing place. If it wouldn&#8217;t be for your money, politicians wouldn&#8217;t much care about you.&#8221;&#8221;I\u2019m deducting from that you\u2019re saying the future of the Democratic Party is going to be moderate?&#8221; Cole asked.Carville argued that right now, the Democratic Party does not have a message so much as it has an argument that Republicans must be stopped.\u00a0&#8220;The only way that you&#8217;re going to have a message is Democratic voters are going to pick their presidential nominee,&#8221; he said.CHARLAMAGNE TELLS VAN JONES TO &#8216;SHUT THE F UP FOREVER&#8217; AFTER CALLING MAMDANI\u2019S VICTORY SPEECH DIVISIVE Political commentator James Carville. (Victor J. Blue\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)&#8221;Now, what we do know for a fact that in this century \u2014 now I may be 72, but maybe not even then, but the Democrats never picked the most left candidate. Ever,&#8221; Carville said, mocking the idea that Mamdani represents where Democrats across the country are politically. &#8220;Right now that gets in the way of the storyline, right? Because New York has to be central to the story, right?&#8221;When Cole continued to share data about the turnout for Mamdani, arguing the election of a democratic socialist was significant, Carville replied, &#8220;That\u2019s great, that\u2019s great, it\u2019s New York City. It\u2019s not anything else.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I tell you that you\u2019re not the center of the political universe in the United States.&#8221;&#8221;Well that\u2019s very disappointing to me,&#8221; the host joked. &#8220;This is a brutal Monday morning.&#8221;CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Democratic strategist James Carville and New York City&#8217;s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani. 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