Democrat strategist James Carville said Thursday that he was wrong about the 2024 election and chalked Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss up to the phrase he famously coined in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Carville said he has been doing some soul-searching in an effort to determine what went wrong for Democrats when President-elect Donald Trump swept to victory Nov. 5.

“I’ve been going over this in my head for the past two months, all the variables, all the what-ifs, all the questions about Joe Biden’s re-election decisions and what kind of Democrat or message might have worked against Donald Trump,” he wrote. “I keep coming back to the same thing.

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