Fetterman tells Carville to 'shut up' about Biden: 'Hasn’t been relevant since grunge was a thing'

27 December 2023

Although veteran Democratic strategist James Carville believes Joe Biden has done a good job as president, he has been expressing doubts about the 81-year-old Democrat's ability to win the 2024 presidential election. Carville, during an appearance on Bill Maher's show "Club Random," argued that Biden's age and low poll numbers could put GOP frontrunner Donald Trump back in the White House.

But Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) disagrees and has promised to campaign for Biden in the Keystone State. During an interview with Politico's Holly Otterbein published on December 26, Fetterman was highly dismissive of Carville's views on Biden and said he needs to "shut the f*** up."

Fetterman told the Philadelphia-based Otterbein, "I'll use this (as) another opportunity to tell James Carville to shut the f*** up. Like I said, my man hasn't been relevant since grunge was a thing. And I don't know why he believes it's helpful to say these kinds of things about an incredibly difficult circumstance with an incredibly strong and decent and excellent president. I'll never understand that."

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Fetterman's "grunge" comment was a reference to Carville's influence in the Democratic Party during the 1990s, when Gen-X favorites like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Hole and the Stone Temple Pilots were popular and Carville was an aggressive supporter of President Bill Clinton.

During the interview, Fetterman stressed that Pennsylvania will be crucial for Biden in 2024 just as it was in 2020. Democrats suffered a major disappointment when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania in 2016, but four years later, the Associated Press called the 2020 election for Biden when he won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes.

Fetterman told Otterbein, "All I do know is that the president will win Pennsylvania. And I do believe if he wins Pennsylvania, and I believe he will, he will be a second-term president."

In response to Fetterman's comment that Carville hasn't been relevant since the grunge years, the Democratic strategist told Politico that other Democratic U.S. senators "haven't gotten the memo" — two of whom are running for reelection in 2024.

Carville told Politico, "His colleague Sen. (Bob) Casey asked me to host a fundraiser with him last week. Sen. (Sherrod) Brown asked me to go to Cleveland to campaign with him."

But Carville was glad to see Fetterman's recovery since his stroke in 2022 and said of the senator, "I'm glad he's feeling better."

Politico's full interview with Sen. John Fetterman is available at this link.

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