'Take the gift': Dem strategist urges party go after Trump’s VP at 'every chance'

Former Democratic strategist James Carville said Democrats are not treating Vice President JD Vance like the Democratic asset he is.

“If they give you a gift, take the g—— gift,” said Carville on the most recent episode of “Politics War Room” podcast. Vance, he said, is the gift that keeps giving.

Carville described Vance, who is touring Georgia to sell President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular Big Beautiful budget bill, as the Republican Party’s weak spot, and he told Democrats to pounce him when they could.

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Carville, who worked to elect former president Bill Clinton, used Vance’s recent vacation in the U.K’s Cotswolds as an example of the VP’s seemingly oblivious privilege as costs across the nation increase as a result of Trump’s policies.

“Florida resorts are hurting. Las Vegas tourism is down substantially,” argued Carville. “National parks, Yellowstone [patronage] is down 15 percent. So, okay, he’s entitled to a vacation. I’ll give him that. Guess where he went? To a place called Oxfordshire, in England, which is a tony, wealthy place that rich Londoners go to. Call it the Martha’s Vineyard of England.”

“And why we didn’t blow this up?” he asked. “Why didn’t the tourist association of the Florida panhandle blow this up? Why didn’t the Vegas people? The California people? The Wyoming people? … People in upstate New York would’ve been glad to have his money. But what does he do? He goes to a tony English village?”

“And, by the way, they wouldn’t even let him in the best pub because employees in the pub said they wouldn’t serve him,” Carville said, referencing a report that the VP was turned away from The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, after staff revolted. “Use JD Vance and just kick the s—— out of him every chance you get,” Carville said.

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Carville and co-host Al Hunt spent the brunt of the episode discussing Trump extending his 2017 tax cuts, which mostly favor “billionaires and greedy corporations” — a fact that Hunt said Vance did not mention during his Georgia campaign.

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