James Carville calls for Ilhan Omar to leave Dem Party over attack on white men: ‘It’s stupid to attack 33% of the voters’

Stephen A. Smith asked Carville about a resurfaced clip from May 2025 in which Carville suggested Omar should consider leaving the Democratic Party and forming her own political movement after a resurfaced clip went viral showing Omar saying, "I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country." Smith wanted to know what had prompted Carville’s strong reaction at the time.

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Carville said that while Omar has strengths and a loyal following, he believed she crossed a line. "She started attacking white males, and I'm gonna say, 'Wait a minute, let's stop. Alright.' In 2024, 72 percent of the people that voted were White. All right? That's just a fact. Of that, 72, probably 48 percent or 48 and a half, were male,” he said.

Based on those numbers, Carville said he calculated that "about 33 percent of the people that are gonna vote are gonna be white males. Well, it's stupid to attack 33 percent of the voters!"

He doubled down, and said that Omar could be a Democratic Socialist. "And so what I would say to Congresswoman Omar, ‘Why don't you be a Democratic Socialist of America?’ Do what AOC did, and then if they win, the truth of that is, I share a lot of ideological issues in common with Congressman Omar, but maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We'll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition."

Carville argued Democrats cannot afford to dismiss large voting blocs. "But we cannot- we have to get this mentality out that we can win national elections [without] White people, because you can't," Carville said. "That we can somehow or another win an election without white males. It's just insanity. It's literally mathematical insanity, cultural insanity."

Smith then asked how Carville would respond to critics who say President Donald Trump has built a strong political base among white men. Carville rejected the idea that white men should be treated as a single political category. "Because I'm a white male, I'm different than other people?" Carville added.

"All white people are not the same. All black people are not the same. All Hispanic people are not the same, all right? " Carville replied. "And I don't like generalizing about someone's gender or their race or their sexual preference or anything else. All gay people are not the same. They're very different personalities. They're very different values, very different everything."

"And I just don't like, and I know when people say it, that they're trying to be inclusive in their language, but I don't think they stop and think of what they're telling somebody,” he added.