06-07-2025
James Carville Makes Ambitious Midterm Prediction After Trump's ‘Big, Beautiful Bill' Passes
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville predicted that President Donald Trump's so-called 'big, beautiful bill,' signed into law Friday, would create a 'mass extinction event' for Republicans in Congress and create future opportunities to elect more Democrats.
'Political anthropologists are going to look back at this, and it's going to be called a mass extinction event because there are a lot of them going to be extinct when people go to the polls voting for this,' Carville told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
Carville's comments came during a panel interview with fellow Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who claimed Republicans in Congress will hurt from Trump's bill, which guts Medicaid to help fund tax cuts for the rich.
'Medicaid is beloved, by the way, Trump won people on Medicaid. He won their votes and you know, a good politician rewards his voters, a great politician reaches out beyond to new voters, but a stupid politician punishes his voters,' Begala said.
Begala cited polling from Kaiser Family Foundation that found a large majority of Democrats, independent voters and Republicans view Medicaid favorably. The nonprofit health policy organization also found that most Americans have some connection to Medicaid.
Trump's 900-page bill extends tax cuts for wealthier households, makes more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, slashes food assistance for low-income households and puts rural hospitals at serious risk of shutting down. The Congressional Budget Office estimated Trump's bill could add $3.3 trillion to the national debt.
Carville agreed with Begala, calling Trump's mega bill 'the most unpopular piece of legislation in history.' He suggested Democrats can use this bill's passing to lift themselves up.
'Every Democrat voted against this. Every Democrat, regardless of the ideology, their ethnicity, or their regional token, we can all rally around this, and we can run on this single issue all the way to 2026,' Carville said. 'And Paul is right, we're going to pick up more than 40 House seats, I can tell you.'
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