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‘Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid’ Review: Political Junkies Will Feast on Portrait of the Outspoken Democratic Operative
James Carville frets about the 2024 presidential race — until his warnings about a worst-case scenario are heeded in Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary.
For much of his film’s running time, director Matt Tyrnauer observes Carville as he follows with ever-increasing anxiety the 2024 Presidential race, fearing the worst as early polls indicate incumbent Joe Biden will be thumped by ex-President Donald Trump. Even before most people in and out of his party started to suggest, politely or otherwise, that Biden should bow out of the race, Carville began to entertain his own doubts about whether the incumbent really was too old and cognitively diminished to handle the mental and physical demands of a second term. “That poll,” Carville admits with his distinctive blunt-spokenness, “it knocked me right off my fucking horse.” Before long, the maverick operative started pushing for implementation of a Plan B: Biden should quit the contest without choosing a worthy successor, and request that a new candidate be chosen at a wide-open Democratic National Convention.
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