‘You Listen to Her Talk and It’s a Lot More About Herself Than the Voters’ [WATCH]

Carville says Crockett violates “the first rule of politics.”

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville just took a public swing at Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Senate ambitions — warning she violates what he calls the first rule of politics.

On Thursday’s episode of the Politics War Room podcast, co-host Al Hunt welcomed Crockett’s Texas Senate flirtation, calling it good news for Democrats. Hunt argued the strongest Democratic option would be state Rep. James Talarico, saying, “If he ends up running against Ken Paxton, I like those odds.”

Carville struck a different tone.

“I’ll address the issue of Jasmine Crockett,” Carville said. “First of all, it seems like she’s well-educated. It seems like she’s got a lot of energy. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics, and that is, in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself.”

Then came the blunt assessment.

“You listen to her talk. It’s a lot more about herself than it is the voters.”

Carville also warned that Crockett represents a deep-blue district that favors Democrats by 24 points, arguing she’d be far more useful trying to flip competitive seats instead of chasing attention.

“You can stay in Congress as long as you want,” Carville said. “You can get all the hits. You can get all the clicks. You can get on all of the TV shows. You can get in as long as you’re polemic, but you’re not helping very much.”

He pointed to Tennessee’s 7th district as a cautionary tale — an election where Republicans were unusually vulnerable, but Democrats still managed to fumble the opportunity.

Carville joked it was as if Democrats had “gone into a lab” to “design the worst candidate that we could possibly run in Tennessee 7.”

Message received: even Democratic heavyweights aren’t sold on Crockett — and the party’s internal knives are already out.

Listen to the clip above.